The results of NBC6's annual teacher survey are in, and we are taking a closer look at what nearly 1,400 teachers said about cellphones and social media in Miami-Dade and Broward County Public Schools.

In Broward, cellphones are banned from bell to bell at every level. In Miami-Dade, high school students cannot use their phones during class periods, but can use them during lunch and other breaks. Thanks to a new law, cellphones are off limits to students in elementary and middle schools statewide.

“I don’t know about other states, but in Florida, you guys cannot have your phones,” said Eloy Padula, telling us what he said to his students on the first day of school.

Padula teaches at a Miami-Dade middle school and strongly supports the cellphone ban.

“There’s a lot of studies out that s

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