{"id":3250772,"date":"2024-09-26T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=3250772"},"modified":"2024-09-26T13:15:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:15:56","slug":"why-some-schools-are-banning-phones-3250772","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/why-some-schools-are-banning-phones-3250772\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s driving phone bans in schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"
This school year, many of the nation’s adolescents and teens are sitting in class without the device that can sometimes feel like an added appendage: their smartphones.<\/p>\n
States such as Florida, Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, and Louisiana have passed laws recently to ban or restrict cell phones in K-12 schools, while countless school districts in dozens of other states have implemented policies to limit use.<\/p>\n
In Maryland, more than 20 school districts launched programs at the start of the school year to keep phones turned off and out of sight. Baltimore County Public Schools, for instance, introduced a pilot program in 16 middle and high schools that requires students to lock devices in “cell phone pouches” at the start of every class.<\/p>\n
Similarly, Howard County high school students must stow phones in backpacks and use them only between classes and during lunch, while elementary and middle school students can’t use them at all, unless an administrator makes an exception for a special event or to reward positive behavior.<\/p>\n
What’s driving the slew of policies?<\/p>\n
Mounting research suggests that smartphone use may be fueling the country’s mental health crisis among youth<\/a>\u2014and leading to problems in schools that range from dwindling attention spans to a lack of engagement in learning and stymied social-emotional development.<\/p>\n Carol Vidal<\/a> is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Annette C. Anderson<\/a> is deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools and an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Education.<\/p>\n Here, Vidal and Anderson discuss their findings from research and share insight on their firsthand experience with kids and teens at school:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This school year, many of the nation’s adolescents and teens are sitting in class without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7072,"featured_media":3250782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[395,8859],"class_list":["post-3250772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-health-medicine","tag-education","tag-mobile-devices","post_format-post-format-quote","university-johns-hopkins-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n