Phone bans sweep U.S. schools despite skepticism

She compared efforts to ban phones to "abstinence education," noting that failing to properly teach children about complicated issues such as sex has failed in the past.

Generally sex is not allowed in schools and during school hours.

"It's not effective, and frankly, it's dumb," Rodrigues told AFP. "What we need to do is equip our kids with the information, with the skills and the strategies they're going to need to navigate a digital future."

Even adults cannot use social media responsibly.

A great move but it has to be strictly enforced with physical removal of phones for the day. I worry that it won't be good enough for my nephew when he goes through school.

GBR48Today 12:08 am JST

I would have thought that in a high risk area with a lot of vulnerable young people, phones would be mandatory.

US schools have a lot of shootings. Being able to broadcast warnings, advice and information and allow kids to speak to worried parents would see all kids being encouraged to carry phones at school.

That's not a real reason statistically and I suspect you know that.

I would have thought that in a high risk area with a lot of vulnerable young people, phones would be mandatory.

US schools have a lot of shootings. Being able to broadcast warnings, advice and information and allow kids to speak to worried parents would see all kids being encouraged to carry phones at school.

"...alot [sic] of good..." Ha! Ha!

School is for learning not phones this is simple to understand

I think this will do alot of good when I was at school and even secondary school I never used a mobile

Good. When I was teaching in US JHS and high schools, they had a ban on cellphones in class but kids would sneak them in, in their bags. There's absolutely no need for them in classes.

That malarky about kids wanting to call their parents during school is just an excuse to justify having access to their phones. No kids want to talk their parent while at school! Never while I was in school and never do I see it now. Don't make me laugh. They can call them after school's out if they want a ride or whatever.

I really dislike our dependency (my own too) on our phones. I can't help but feel that it makes us a bit weaker, despite potential bumps in productivity and time saving.

I have noticed even as an adult, it feels like my ability to learn and retain info has waned because I can just look it up in an instant.

Gone are the days when the only way to settle an argument would be to go to the Library and look it up, so he/she with the most confidence tends to win.

Lets train our kids not to depend on pda.