As students’ national test scores continue to decline , along with their mental, emotional and physical health , the research is becoming more clear: Smartphones are negatively impacting kids in myriad ways.

Giving them a break from their personal devices during the school day, by way of implementing bell-to-bell policies — meaning that phones are kept in lockers or pouches from the first bell to the last — is becoming a popular choice for schools around the globe and is now considered by many to be the gold standard for managing smartphones in school.

In March of 2024, I made the difficult decision to leave my decade-long teaching career, after feeling like my teaching attempts were increasingly falling on deaf ears (or at least airpod-filled ones). I could no longer compete with

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