Cities, states and school districts are passing sweeping bans on cellphones in schools, aiming to get kids to pay attention during class and socialize with their peers IRL.
Why it matters: School cellphones policies are a difficult flashpoint: On one hand, the phones can be a useful learning tool and essential parent lifeline; on the other — well, they're a pretty obvious distraction.
Driving the news: It's suddenly gotten trendy to ban phones in school or make students lock them in a Yondr pouch — sometimes just in classrooms, but increasingly everywhere in school buildings throughout the day.
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Schools ban phones, but do the policies work?
- by: Jennifer A. Kingson
- 2024-07-12
- Source:
AXIOS
- 07/12/2024
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