Should schools teach practical habits for managing social media’s effects on identity and well-being?

I teach juniors, and I promise you a state-mandated 'healthy social media' curriculum becomes a political football by October. One parent's 'managing comparison culture' is another parent's 'the school shaming my daughter's modeling account.' We already watch this fight play out over library books and health class; adding a unit where teachers grade students' relationship with their phones hands every school board a new battlefield. And the evidence that classroom lessons change teen phone habits is thin, because the behavior is driven by peers, not pamphlets. Give counselors more hours and let families handle values. The classroom cannot fix what the cafeteria rewards. It is already happening with other curricula: school boards have become culture-war battlegrounds where debates over books and lessons escalate into ideological fights.