Summary
Several states, including Alabama, Maryland, and New Hampshire, are introducing legislation to ban or restrict cellphones in schools.
The measures claim to reduce distractions and address concerns over teen mental health linked to heavy social media use.
Proponents argue such bans help students focus, but opponents, including parents, warn of safety and communication issues.
“If something were to happen in the school, my child should be able to have their cellphone to be able to call for help, to be able to call me,” said parent Jeara Underwood.
Experts emphasize teaching responsible tech use rather than imposing broad bans.
Have fun closing that little box.
Your comment almost launched me into the third tirade in as many months about how the story of “schools putting in litter boxes” was nothing but anti-education nonsense that doesn’t take into account the fact that most school boards are made up of people who would never do anything like that in a million years just on cost alone, then I re-read lol.
Weird that some parents are against this. I live in a country where we have a ban and grades have been going up, there’s less problems in class, teachers are more relaxed again, kids have started playing again during recess and they are overall less chaotic.
Its almost like cell phones would be entirely negative if we didn’t need them to navigate
Out of curiosity, I searched for China’s approach and found that they banned children bringing phones to school without written parental consent. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55902778
I’m still figuring out where I stand, but I’m not sure I disagree. School shooters have been linked to high social media use. I wonder if a ban could help at all in this regard.
On a side note, I don’t really see how banning cell phones could be interpreted as punishment. If anything, it should help reduce apparent disparities and avoid punishment for inappropriate use
They should implement age verification for social media so people stop using it.
Shouldn’t this be a school district issue why does a state government need to get involved?
Hey it only took us a couple of decades!
Understanding media is going super well you guys.
