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From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban

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279 points geox | 1 comments | 11 Sep 25 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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trentnix ◴[11 Sep 25 14:08 UTC] No.45211888[source]▶
Texas banned phones in schools as well. A local school administrator told me “in the high school, the lunch room is now loud with talking and laughter!”

There are still parents that complain. Turns out they are as addicted to texting with their kids all day as their kids are addicted to the same.

Regardless, it’s great to see that the ban has seemingly nudged things in a healthier direction. Its a failure of leadership that schools needed a statewide ban to make such an obviously positive change.

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1. SchemaLoad ◴[11 Sep 25 23:18 UTC] No.45217107[source]▶
Australia has done this for public schools recently. It's been a huge success. Private schools have banned phones for ages.

As a teenager I hated how the rule applied during lunch as well, but now I realise it was primarily to get us to physically talk to each other and interact rather than scrolling reddit in the corner. So I'm very thankful we had that rule.