Headline (paywall):
This Is What Happened After Several Schools Banned Cellphones
Banning cellphones in schools improved academics, reduced bullying, and reduced students’ need for counseling, a 73-page Norwegian paper found.
Girls benefited the most from the policies.
“Banning smartphones significantly decreases the health care take-up for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls,” Sara Sofie Abrahamsson, a postdoctoral researcher and the paper’s sole author, wrote in the abstract. Post-ban bullying among both genders decreases.”
The paper followed data from recent decades, mainly focusing on 2010 to 2018.
The researcher observed no negative impact from introducing such a policy.
“The phones are an absolute distraction. Even if a kid has the phone in their pocket during class, if the phone is on vibrate every time it vibrates, which is constantly, their mind automatically shifts away from what the teacher is teaching to the phone,” Tom Kersting, a psychotherapist who was a school counselor for 25 years, told The Epoch Times in agreement with the report’s findings.
We should ban phones in school everywhere. At least until we teach kids the old-school art of concentration. If you don't have your mind, you don't have anything.
2 comments:
Amen.
I'm surprised they were ever allowed. My school days were long before cell phones existed, but I can't imagine one of us even thinking it would be cool to bring our transistor radio (with earphones, of course) into the classroom. Hell, most bars here make the girls leave their phones locked away so that they will pay attention to customers (even if we have no class).
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