School Phone Bans

A lot of schools don't allow mobile phones...

For context, China banned phones in school due to this reason: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55902778

Sounds like pure common sense to me. Schools are implicitly responsible for the overall well-being of kids. Many schools ban smoking, sugary snacks/drinks, some dressing style (or non-dressing), makeup. Many parents would love to send their kids to schools without a phone, this will empower and support them.

Phones should've never been allowed in school to begin with

Phones were banned in my highschool (~10 years ago). You didn't "give up" your phone, you just couldn't take it out. Taking your phone out during class usually resulted in having it put on the teachers desk until the end of class so it wasn't a major punishment but also you couldn't sit there scrolling facebook all day.Not sure why HN acts like this kind of rule is impossible when its already extremely common in schools.

Sounds like commonsense to me. This was the policy when I went to school too - use a phone during school time and it's confiscated.

This article is super surprising. You mean phones weren't already banned?I would have expected it to be like taking a Game Boy or a laptop into a lesson, instant confiscation until the end of the day.

Phones are banned in the school my kid attends. It’s fine. Students put them away when they arrive, and can take em out again when they leave.

I was in school when mobile phones were just becoming accessible, and our school had a blanket ban on them. If they were out of your backpack or locker anywhere other than the lunchroom, it got taken away and you could pick it up at the end of the day from the principals office.It blows my mind that anyone could try to teach a room full of young kids without such a policy... what a daunting task.

Kids standing around checking phones or kids talking to each other. That the basic choice. The trade off of some small convieneice seems worth while.If hadn't thought about it much, mobile phone didn't exist when I was at school. However I recently visited a school as a prospective parent and they had a strict no phone policy. Locker or lose it. After listening to the principle talk about the problems they had with bullying, distractions, social status, I'm supportive.