Smartphones gripping people’s attention isn’t anything new. But following the pandemic, Kris Hagel recalls seeing a troubling rise in public school students distracted by their phones during class. “I would walk through classrooms last year and kids have absolutely no attention to the teacher that’s presenting a lesson in front of them because they’re so

The Lancaster County Republican sees the ban as a way to address a decline in students' mental health and academic performance.

With the coalition government's ban of student mobile phones in New Zealand schools coming into effect this week, reaction has ranged from the skeptical (kids will just get sneakier) to the optimistic (most kids seem okay with it).