Pop quiz. What's a policy supported by political rivals in California and Florida?

And hint, no looking at your phone.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. The answer is banning phones in school.

Florida is one of a half a dozen states that have restricted mobile devices in the classroom.

California has not yet, though Governor Gavin Newsom recently pushed the legislature

to take action.

School officials in New York City and Los Angeles also recently moved to banned phones in their districts.

The policies are intended to reduce distraction and help reverse addiction and other mental health

concerns attributed to phone use.

But Liz Kolb, a clinical professor of education at the University of Michigan,

says it's not that simple.

Cell phone bands can mean a lot of different things in schools.

Some schools consider a ban to literally mean the cell phone cannot be on school property.

Other schools, a ban is the cell phone can come into the school but has to be in a

locker or in a protected area the entire school day. Sometimes it's the cell phone

can be used in hallways or at lunch or even a

teacher's discretion. So a ban isn't necessarily a universal blanket

statement. It really varies from school to school is what we're seeing.

Now not everyone is on board with these kinds of policies. I mean what sort of arguments are there

against phone bands?

So while there's good arguments for phone bands there's also some good arguments

...