"There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support the use of school policies that prohibit phone use during the school day in their current form"
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(25)00003-1/fulltext
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@michael_w_busch In my opinion that finding is not a reason for a school to change its policy. If there were a study that there was no difference in health problems between students going to schools that allow vaping and those who don't nobody would propose to drop the ban on vaping.
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For a reason for schools to not have blanket bans on cell phones:
Some students need their phones at all times for medical reasons (examples: kids with insulin pumps or ICDs) or for accessibility (examples: hard of hearing kids with phones that pair to their hearing aids; deaf kids who use autotranscription and text-to-speech).
Even bans with exceptions can cause problems because said kids have to keep arguing for them.
And I suggest that comparing this to kids vaping is misplaced.