Do School Cellphone Bans Improve Students’ Mental Health?
Students place their mobile phones in lockers at a school.
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Hi, it's Gerry in New York, where schools have banned smartphones in the classroom for the first time. I spoke to one high school student in a neighboring state about how a phone ban at his school has affected his mental health. But first ...
In his Arabic class last year, Emeka Forman recalls looking around the room and seeing every student looking down at their phones, sucked in by the algorithms of Instagram and TikTok videos.