- St. Andrew’s Episcopal Boarding School – A small school in Middletown, Delaware that has put phones in their place by not allowing them in public and only in rooms at night.
- Student Body Co-Presidents – Ford Chapman and Trinity Smith, who use announcements to keep students up to date on events & birthdays and process into chapel after dinner.
- Smartphone Usage Research – Shows how addictive they are, their costs to mental health, and how they impede attention.
- Pushback Against Smartphones – Different forms, such as banning phones, allowing low-tech phones, prohibiting them during school day, and storing phones in shoe organizers.
- Student Compliance – High due to discussion of pros and cons of smartphones, and seniors enforcing the rule.
- Public Schools – Can still push back against smartphones with restrictions, such as allowing phones after school ends and on the bus home, or having students leave them at home.
Published February 18, 2023
Visit The Atlantic to read Mark Oppenheimer’s original post The Schools That Ban Smartphones
