Indiana just passed legislation to require schools to ban phones.
They permit them for health reasons, emergencies, when part of lesson, and when part of a formal plan.
I personally don’t like the idea of schools requiring locking them up. What would you do in that emergency they mentioned?
Why should kids not be able to use them at lunch?
If you want to control your kid’s phone time, there’s already apps for that.
Edit: additional comment from a teacher: she said the phone restrictions aren’t going to be as effective as one would think with all the kids having watches with data plans. Dude…
It’s not your own kid that is the problem, but rather that every other parent is shitty and let’s their kid be on the phone all day long, which in turn forces your kid to follow suit or be ostracized. If phones are banned altogether from school, kids get to have healthy activities during recess, rather than being glued to the phone. The shitty parents can let their kids get phone neck after school.
…said every parent.
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I think the idea that having the school day be electronics free for the reason you mentioned is logical.
I think there’s a different scenario between elementary, middle, and high school, but regardless of their age, an electronics break is an attempt to do something positive. I counter this in my mind by asking how much worse the current situation with electronics and kids differs from previous generation that didn’t have cell phones in school, but still managed to bully each other and have all kinds of issues.
The article implies that the broad/general mental health of the current kid generations as a whole are worse off than previous without all the constant social media. I wonder if that’s true or if it’s made worse by additional factors.
Do you have school aged kids?