iPods as Social Isolators

By C.K. Sample, III

I love reposting Barb's Engadget posts!  Anyway, it looks like Sydney, Australia's private International Grammar School is banning iPods because they serve as social isolators.

My two cents on this:  so?  I mean, if grammar school is supposed to prepare one for junior high and high school, wouldn't self-chosen social isolation be good preparation for the type of social isolation that many students face in the clique-ish, raging-hormone-land that is adolescent schooling? Also, I think it is good prep for life in general.  I love isolating myself from everyone as I walk the streets of Manhattan in my own private sound bubble.  But, maybe that's just me...

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UPDATE:  Turns out the above mentioned Grammar School is an Australian High School.  Now I really don't get what the big problem with social isolation is!

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