Increasing number of American schools are schools cracking down on iPhones
Nine out of ten American teens are iPhone users, but, increasingly, not during school hours, as schools across the country increasingly crack down on iPhone use during class.
Natasha Singer for The New York Times:
Cellphones have become a school scourge. More than 70% of high school teachers say student phone distraction is a “major problem,” according to a survey this year by Pew Research.
That’s why states are mounting a bipartisan effort to crack down on rampant student cellphone use. So far this year, at least eight states have passed laws, issued orders or adopted rules to curb phone use among students during school hours… But cellphone restrictions can be difficult for teachers to enforce without schoolwide rules requiring students to place their phones in lockers or other locations.
Now, state lawmakers, along with some prominent governors, are pushing for more uniform restrictions in public schools… Some independent schools are also banning phones. Recently, the head of Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., wrote in The Atlantic that it was “time to remove phones from schools.”
Where did the phone bans start?
Last year, Florida passed a law requiring public schools to prohibit students from using personal wireless devices, including smartphones and earbuds, during class time. Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, the nation’s eighth-largest school system, went even further, banning students from using their phones during the entire school day.
The Florida measure also requires school districts to block student access to social media platforms on school Wi-Fi and specifically prohibits TikTok on school-issued devices. It includes exceptions permitting cellphone use for educational activities “when expressly directed” by a teacher.
Which states are next?
Several states have followed Florida…
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Good parenting is good parenting.
For even more proof that Steve Jobs was an unparalleled visionary (as if we needed any), from The New York Times, September 10, 2014 (“Steve Jobs was a low-tech parent“), Nick Bilton recounted a conversation he had with Steve Jobs in late 2010:
Bilton: So, your kids must love the iPad?
Jobs: They haven’t used it. We limit how much technology our kids use at home.
“Since then, I’ve met a number of technology chief executives and venture capitalists who say similar things: they strictly limit their children’s screen time, often banning all gadgets on school nights, and allocating ascetic time limits on weekends,” Bilton reported. “I was perplexed by this parenting style. After all, most parents seem to take the opposite approach, letting their children bathe in the glow of tablets, smartphones and computers, day and night.”
Bilton reported, “Yet these tech C.E.O.’s seem to know something that the rest of us don’t.”
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