My kids' school locks phones in pouches every morning, and you know what happened? Nothing. They survived. UNESCO's 2023 education report went further and called on countries to ban smartphones in schools outright, finding that even a phone sitting nearby drags down learning. Teacher Magazine If a fourteen-year-old can go seven hours without a screen, the rest of us can manage two. The pouch panic is mostly projection by adults who cannot imagine it. Kids already live this policy five days a week. Theaters making it the default would just extend the one part of the day young people already handle fine.
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