re: Why are state employees and teachers not allowed to voice their opinion on social media?

Amen. It has been very demoralizing to be in the first generation of adults to have to parent kids in the social media age. Nine out of ten parents, it seems, have abdicated their responsibilities as parents and ceded hours per day of personal connectivity to a device. Giving kids smart phones in elementary school, some as young as kindergarteners. Many do so because they just can’t stomach their kid not having a what another kid has but many are just lazy parents who would rather create a world of constant distraction where they don’t have to do the hard parts of raising a kid. We see this in public with young kids faces buried in phones but it is the same in their homes. Lazy parents will not admit it but they cherish the hours where little Brayden is occupied and lost somewhere in device land. The parent learns to lean on the device as a way to avoid the difficulty of interacting and parenting as much as the kid learns to use it as a means to be constantly entertained. It has become an addiction of sorts to both lazy parents and to their over stimulated children. It won’t change and that really sucks. Cant put that genie back in the bottle.