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Schools across the country are discovering that there's no perfect strategy for curbing students' phone use. Saying phones should be banned in schools is easy. Actually doing it is a lot more ...
Denmark does not have a mobile phone ban, but nevertheless the Danish Ministry of Education advised that mobile phones must be kept out of classrooms. Therefore, many schools up to 7th grade offer "cell phone hotels" for students to store their devices. Still, mobile phones are allowed in higher schools during breaks and free periods. [37]
A group of high school student use their mobile phones. Across the country, most check-ins with middle and high school students are pretty much the same. The bans are going just fine.
And middle school policy of “away for the day” requires students to keep phones off and stored in backpacks the entire school day. Richland is following a growing local, state and national trend.
A new policy requires all high school students to lock away their phones for the day. ... in 2023 with one ninth grade class showed those phone-free students had the highest GPA across the school ...
In parts of the world, mobile phones are banned in school settings. In France and Ontario, Canada, the use of mobile phones is banned during instructional time in an effort to improve the performance of students. [84] [85] In 2021 China banned mobile phones in schools unless students have written parental consent. [86]
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
“Taking a phone away during the school day provides balance,” said Shinica Thomas, chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners. “You have the opportunity later to get on social media.”