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Students in an Iowa school district have been heaping praise on a recent cell phone ban, saying that it has freed up their focus for more important things.
Ottumwa Community School District implemented a cell phone ban last week at the start of the school season, and students and faculty have already been noticing a difference. Per The Midwesterner:
[Gateway High School Principal Aaron] Ruff and others in the Ottumwa Community School District recently explained to KCRG how the learning experience has improved since students were required to lock their phones away this year, following several other area districts and schools that have implemented similar policies.
The shift came from a group including students that studied the impacts of rising cell phone use on bullying, learning, and student mental health, concluding less phone use could improve all three.
Ottumwa High School Principal Shelley Bramchreiber told the Ottumwa Post that the schools would be implementing the ban after seeing positive effects in certain schools. read more
Well that’s a big plus!
Good to hear! A few adults need to hear this too! Cell phone attraction has no age limit!
Spokane public schools has also just banned the use of cell phones during school hours by students just this week when school stated on Tuesday.
And of course the phones are always available in emergencies because you know the kids will carry them anyway. Apparently, lacking sufficient common sense, this generation needed a lesson in self control. Twenty+ years ago, my kids carried flip phones and were only allowed to used them in an appropriate situation. Kids born during the Reagan era have pretty much kept their common sense!
When I was in school, kids carrying phones was literally unthinkable. Western Electric didn’t make long enough cords.
I’m sure that this is racist… somehow.
Uncle Al – not only that but Western Electric phone were so solid and heavy they could be used as weapons!
@Harry — LOL! Cause of death: Cranial trauma by blunt telephone instrument.
Was anyone ever killed by having one of those big heavy phones thrown at them and conking them in the head?
I’m seeing this story on my cellphone.
Anyone else remember the asbestos blanket hanging in the cloak room at school and the nuke/fire drills?
Western Electric ROTARY dialed phones.
Well, duh??????