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Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With Concentration (fortune.com)
Students at a California high school are getting less screen time since the school implemented a ban on cellphone use during the school day. From a report: After one teacher at San Lorenzo High School brought pouches, created by the tech start-up Yondr, into her classroom to lock away students' phones, the entire school began using them from the beginning of the school day at 8 a.m. until the end of the day at 3:10 p.m. According to a 2018 study from the Pew Research Center, more than half of teens said they felt loneliness, anxiety, or upset in the absence of a cellphone. The study also found that girls were more likely to feel these sentiments than boys.
"If something feels weird about modern life to young kids who are dealing with a lot of angst and anxiety in general, maybe it has something to do with relating to the world primarily through a screen eight hours a day," Yondr's founder Graham Dugoni told CNBC. Students said they initially felt awkward and annoyed having their phones taken away during the school day, but added that they started to see more teens interacting with each other. One student added that not having a phone in class helped with concentration.
"If something feels weird about modern life to young kids who are dealing with a lot of angst and anxiety in general, maybe it has something to do with relating to the world primarily through a screen eight hours a day," Yondr's founder Graham Dugoni told CNBC. Students said they initially felt awkward and annoyed having their phones taken away during the school day, but added that they started to see more teens interacting with each other. One student added that not having a phone in class helped with concentration.
This is an Authoritarian Indoctrination scheme. Teach the kids they don't have freedom, that is how you get them dependent on authority to tell them what they need to do. Creates great little democrats and republicans. You are not allowed to decide how you learn, you must do it our way or else.
Let them have their devices, if they can pass while playing Farmville and texting with their friends then good for them. The only thing school should be doing is teaching them is knowledge, not what to believe or how to behave. If a child will not behave, kick them out of school and make it their parents problem. The entire system has been setup to treat everyone like little assembly line factory workers and it stinks like a rotting pile of disease riddle flesh.
Once the kids start getting kicked out and parents have to start dealing with them... the problem will get fixed in much better ways.