> Students' sleep, classroom behaviour, exercise or how long they spend on their phones overall also seems to be no different for schools with phone bans and those without, the academics found.
> However, they did find that spending longer on smartphones and social media in general was linked with worse results for all of those measures.
About the same study. Again, when kids are not on their phones they do better at school. Period. A ban is just a way to try to get there. If it's not effective because kids skirt the rules, we try something else
> However, they did find that spending longer on smartphones and social media in general was linked with worse results for all of those measures.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8plvqv60lo
About the same study. Again, when kids are not on their phones they do better at school. Period. A ban is just a way to try to get there. If it's not effective because kids skirt the rules, we try something else