Should Students be Allowed Cell Phones in School?

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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California’s public schools will be required to restrict cell phone use on campuses by 2026, under a bill awaiting Governor Newsom’s signature. Many Bay Area schools have already banned, or limited, the use of phones during the school day. We’ll check in with teachers, administrators and students about what’s working, what’s not and whether limiting phones has helped kids concentrate in class. Guests: Diego Ochoa, superintendent, San Mateo-Foster City School District Maximus Simmons, junior at Oakland High School and a student director on the Oakland Unified School Board, Oakland High School Hasmig Minassian, 9th grade ethnic studies teacher, Berkeley High School Nico Fischer, junior, Santa Clara High School Yvonne Shiu, principal, San Mateo High School Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.5	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. Should schools ban the use of cell phones and
1:05.8	classrooms and on campuses? There's certainly a major public policy push to do so right now, but here in the
1:12.8	Tech Rich Bay Area, schools and school districts have been trying to deal with these problems for years.
1:18.9	We'll talk with the superintendent of the San Mateo Foster City School District about their
1:23.2	cell phone policy, get a teacher's perspective, get a principal's perspective, and we've
1:28.2	got some students too. We're talking rumors spreading, classroom interruptions, and yonder pouches.
1:33.3	It's coming up to get caught up in the worlds that
2:02.2	live inside our screens. And I do worry that some of the panic about kids and phones is really
2:09.3	displaced panic about what parents are doing to ourselves. But that's not all of it. There is
2:14.9	research and there is common sense to back up the idea that
2:17.9	staring at your phone at school all day is not the optimal learning posture. And so right now,
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