An idea parents use to instill "discipline".
Taking away electronics is not a good way to make kids do their
homework. If electronics are positive, homework is negative. Taking away
the positive does not actually make it better; it causes hedonic imbalance.
Imbalance affects the quality of work too.
Rather, this comes from the fact it is impractical to blame school itself (or even
if blamed, still have to suffer through it), so stuff (usually
technology, like comic books, or social media), takes all the blame.