Should schools ban phones?
NO SUCH THING
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🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, we take a look into a rather divisive issue: school cell phone bans. With more and more states introducing legislature to ban mobile devices in schools, we take a look at the cases for and against the restrictions. Our guests today are Sabine Polak from the Phone-Free Schools Movement and Keri Rodrigues from the National Parents Union.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Mani. |
| 0:01.2 | I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.9 | This is Devin. |
| 0:02.9 | And this is No Such Thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually |
| 0:07.0 | doing the research. |
| 0:08.2 | On today's episode, why can't kids just use the school phone like I used to? |
| 0:13.7 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:15.7 | No such thing. |
| 0:18.6 | No such thing. |
| 0:34.2 | No such thing. No... Thank you. So a few years ago, my fiance, Julie, and I got into a disagreement about whether or not our future kids should have cell phones. |
| 0:40.1 | My view at the time was, well, I made it through high school, and most of college without a smartphone, you can do what I did and just use the office phone if you need to reach me. |
| 0:44.8 | Or your mouth. |
| 0:45.8 | Talk to people, yeah. |
| 0:47.6 | Ask one of your friends who has a phone because they have nice parents. |
| 0:52.6 | Her view was that times have changed. |
| 0:55.1 | I was in high school, you know, let's say 15 years ago. |
| 0:58.1 | Damn. |
| 0:58.7 | Yeah, that's something like that. |
| 1:02.2 | Sad to hear that. |
| 1:04.1 | And our phoneless child would be an outlier, a loser, maybe a pariah. |
| 1:09.5 | And they'd be left out of things if they don't have a phone. |
| 1:11.9 | More and more states and school districts have been introducing cell phone restriction policies. |
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