Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness

Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by _heimdall on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:00AM (#39987119)

Would this be a federal ban, a state-level ban managed by education boards, or something else?

And how is it enforced exactly? Are parents held responsible, or are state education funds impacted somehow based on smartphone use?

Would we need a federal mandate to require flip phone / feature phone support? The last time I tried to find a feature phone it wasn't easy, many depend on 2G/3G networks which are losing support and carriers have absolutely no incentive to carry feature phones when smartphones are all that sell.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by bart_spoon on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:38AM (#39987302)

State bans are already occurring. Indiana just banned phones from schools a week or two ago.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by _heimdall on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:35AM (#39989515)

Well I can't really complain about that at least. States have a lot more leeway and are explicitly given the power to manage their public schools.

A quick look at Indiana's law and the news articles are interesting. The law requires schools to implements rules that ban phone use during class, but the actual rules and implementations are left for schools to decide. The articles I found make that sound like the law is toothless and passes the hard work off to school systems, but in my opinion that's a great law as it let's every school do what works best for them without prescribing a single solution for everyone.

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