Happened to me, already read all of these reddit comments. Fell into a massive depression the day after starting supplementation, extreme hopelessness. Had to stop, went away after a few days.
It could be anything. Better air, light, dynamic environments (in your home everything is where you last left it) - visual, sound, touch. It could be a higher rate of new faces seen and more social interaction. It could be grounding. There's a million variables to control for here
Growing up with this stuff in it's infancy, it was like there were two worlds, the digital one and the real one. Most people out in the real world didn't use the internet much and even if you spent tons of time online, they could pull you up to speed with their ways of thinking and behaving. Kids nowadays don't have that, their parents are phone addicts, their neighbors are phone addicts. They can't see themselves out of the maze because there is no one to guide them out.
What safety violation would be possible, inside the classroom? Fights in the hall, ok, but they could keep the phone on their backpack. But inside the classroom with the teacher present?
I imagine they don't study at all however devote very large blocks of time to studying which they spend mostly distracting themselves and never working. I go to cafes every day. It has been a long time since I've seen a study group of youth doing work. They are mostly talking or distracting themselves. Even when they stop talking and appear to work, eventually they pick up talking again and you can tell they've been looming over the conversation topics in their heads the entire time.
They simply don't think studying or learning is cool and are more interested in gossip.
> don't think studying or learning is cool and are more interested in gossip
I mean, at a certain level, that's just being a teenager. Most never cared that much about grades or studying.
A group of us that had all played football together in high school got together a few years ago when two of our number died - one was expected (he had long been in ill health), the other murdered in very strange circumstances. Anyway, we're all sitting around telling stories, and I mentioned a few things some of the more academic among us had done. One of the others, who was a pretty average student, said, "man, I always figured you guys in the honors classes just studied and such, sounds like I missed out on some damn funny stories."
Thing was that I almost never did homework or studied at home - I used my downtime during the school day to get that done so I could play Civilization when I got home.
Well yeah imagine how much money there is to make in information when you can cut literally everyone else involved out, take all of the information and sell it with ads and only give people a link at the bottom, if that is even needed at all