During today's commute into work, my RIPTA bus was traveling slowly past a local yellow school bus. What I saw through the windows made me sad.
The school bus wasn't full; in fact, the seats that were being used held just one child apiece. A few kids on the close side of the bus were listening to their iPods or were playing with their phones. Others were simply watching cars go by. One young boy was sleeping with his face pressed up against the cold glass window.
That's all fine and good but I was sad to see that there were no conversations between any of the students. I bet if I was a fly on the wall of that bus I'd be the only one making sound, fluttering my paper-thin wings.
I remember my elementary school bus as a social gathering. We'd have singalongs and talk about recent Mickey Mouse Club, Kids Incorporated or Full House episodes. As I got older, the conversations certainly changed but they still occurred.
Do kids these days only communicate with help from their phones or do real face-to-face conversations happen in schools these days?
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