Rantz: Seattle Public Schools damaged youth mental health, but blames social media

Seattle Public Schools filed a lawsuit against social media companies arguing their services target kids and cause them to develop mental health issues. It’s a frivolous lawsuit meant to garner attention and, if they’re lucky, cover a portion of their budget the district doesn’t want to pay for. While the issue itself is worth a serious discussion, so too is the fact that SPS caused the very same issues in kids over the last three years. SPS quite literally forced kids to log onto the same computers and phones they used to access social media.

SPS argued TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat contribute to students’ mental health issues,

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