Every objection to a ban melts when you look at how schools actually do it. Lockable pouches from companies like Yondr cost a few dollars per student, kids keep the phone on their person, and the school office handles genuine emergencies, which is what offices did for decades before every child had a phone. My daughter's school adopted pouches last year and the change was immediate: lunch got louder, teachers stopped playing phone police, and the emergency calls turned out to be mostly forgotten homework and ride logistics. Parents survived not texting their kids for six hours in 1995, and the office phone still works. This is a solved problem pretending to be a hard one.
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