{"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&#8217;s driving phone bans in schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This school year, many of the nation&#8217;s adolescents and teens are sitting in class without the device that can sometimes feel like an added appendage: their smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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 &#8220;cell phone pouches&#8221; at the start of every class.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t use them at all, unless an administrator makes an exception for a special event or to reward positive behavior.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s driving the slew of policies?<\/p>\n<p>Mounting research suggests that smartphone use may be fueling the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/smartphone-dependency-loneliness-depression-2174442-2\/\">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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.hopkinsmedicine.org\/provider\/carol-vidal\/2704617\">Carol Vidal<\/a> is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Johns Hopkins Children&#8217;s Center and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and <a href=\"https:\/\/education.jhu.edu\/directory\/annette-campbell-anderson-phd\/\">Annette C. 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