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I can report firsthand how classrooms are transformed when cellphones are banned.

Schools are only now banning phones during the day.

Parents should consider delaying giving their children smartphones.

cell phones are like crack for kids Source: ChatGPT

One thing I love about teaching is learning from my students. I started my career at a junior college in California in the early 2000s, teaching Informal Logic (critical thinking), which fostered lots of interesting class discussions.

One day, the subject of ADHD came up (though I think at the time it was still called ADD, attention defecit disorder), and one of my students remarked that he was skeptical about high schoolers being put on medication for the diagnosis because, he explained, this could set a teenager u

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