Should Schools Ban Phones?

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you take away a kid’s phone during school hours? In a word: drama. Some schools around the country are trying to completely remove smartphones from classrooms, requiring students to place them in pouches. Audie talks with Carol Kruser, Assistant Superintendent of Student Support Services at Chicopee Public Schools in Massachusetts. She successfully advocated for a district-wide ban on phones. We also hear from Suzanna Kopans, a high school senior who willingly parted with her phone. She’s part of an organization called Phone-Free Schools Movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.2	So for fact sake, search the economist.
0:46.6	Okay.
0:47.6	Do you have a minute?
0:49.2	It's kind of a personal question or personal to us.
0:52.6	Okay.
0:54.4	Okay, so how old...
0:58.6	At what age do you think we're going to give the boys their own cell phones?
1:02.8	Never.
1:04.2	Wait, are you serious?
1:07.2	There's been a major shift in the way people talk about social media and smartphones when it comes to kids.
1:14.8	I don't want them to have one before they're 10, that's for sure.
1:19.5	So I've been thinking about this because my husband and I have two little kids who love to use a tablet right now for podcasts and cartoons and for the first grader school work.
1:29.3	We've talked here and there about how much screen time they have, but we haven't gotten to the
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