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Phone use in schools is not just an issue for students and teachers but also for other employees of educational institutions. According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, while no state bans all mobile phone use for all drivers, twenty states and the District of Columbia prohibit school bus drivers from using mobile phones. [78]
Addiction to cell phones. Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the “gradual apathy pandemic” in eighth grade. Only a handful of classmates registered for service projects she helped ...
In the 2021-22 school year, 76% of U.S. public schools prohibited non-academic use of phones during school hours, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The ban was highest in ...
One idea is to ban cellphone use during school hours in grades K-8 with high schools having more flexibility.
The debate over phones' place in educational spaces stretches back even further than NCES data measures—to the aftermath of the Columbine school shooting in 1999 and the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 ...
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.
Abrupt bans could promote viewing phone usage as a reward—where phones are only used for YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok—rather than as a tool for collaboration, learning, and productivity.
The School Committee initiated a three-workshop effort to solicit opinions on what policy direction they should pursue. Here's a look at the options.