I have a feeling that bans are not the most effective approach long term. Maybe there's a solution where we educate young people on responsible phone use and work with them to design practices that work for everyone. After all, outside of high school people have to actually self regulate their phone use. Whether they do so effectively varies, but maybe it's a skill we need to think about teaching and developing. Just a direction I've been thinking in, I don't have any concrete recommendations.
Of course schools are already way overburdened, but maybe a solution here has large enough positive externalities to be worth it.
At the very least, we're trapping a bunch of kids with a bunch of other kids and some of the hormonal monsters with underdeveloped impulse control will do horrible things with cell phone cameras. Can you imagine what they might do? Got some ideas? Every single one of those things is happening all the time in schools with weak policies on cell phones.
We owe the many, many victims a phone ban in schools.
Of course schools are already way overburdened, but maybe a solution here has large enough positive externalities to be worth it.