Atlanta – Florida was the first state to pass the law regulating the use of mobile phones in schools in 2023.
Only two years later, half of all states have been introduced by laws, more likely to act soon.
This year, the accounts in the countries have undergone legislation that varied like New York and Oklahoma, reflecting a wide consensus that phones are bad for children.
Connecticut prosecutor Jennifer Leeper, Democrat and co -chairwoman of the Educational Committee of the General Assembly, on May 13, called phones “cancer on our children”, which are “isolation, loneliness, reducing attention and have a major impact on both social emotional well -being, but also learning”.
Republicans express similar feelings.
“It is not only an academic law,” said the Republican representative Scott Hilton after a Georgian account, which prohibits only phones in the K-8 degrees, passed in March. “This is an account for mental health. It is the Public Security Act.”
So far, 25 countries have adopted laws, with eight other countries and the Columbia district carried out rules or issued recommendations to local districts. He acted from states 16 this year. It was on Tuesday that the legislators of Alaska demanded that schools regulate mobile phones when they exceeded the educational package that the Republican government Mike Dunleavy vetoed for unrelated reasons.
Another event comes when Bills awaits the Governor or Veto in Florida, Missouri, Nebrasce and New Hampshire.
When Florida first acted, lawmakers ordered schools to ban phones during the instructions and allow them between classes or lunch. Now, however, awaits another law awaiting GOV. Ron Desantis, which goes further. It would ban phones throughout the school day for elementary and secondary schools.
Nine States and District of Columbia have enacted the bans of the school day, most for students in K-12 levels, and now exceed seven states with a teaching ban.
The Republican Governor of North Dakota Kelly Armstrong introduced a ban on the school day that he had signed a “huge victory” to the law.
“The teachers wanted it. The parents wanted it. The headmasters wanted it. The school councils wanted it,” Armstrong said.
Armstrong recently visited a primary school with such a ban. He said he saw children working together during lunch and laughing at the tables.
The “Bell-to-Bell” prohibitions were partially promoted by Excelined, an educational Think tank founded by former Governor Florida Jeb Bush. The political associated group of the group was active in lobbying for a ban.
Nathan Hoffman, Chief Director of State Policy and Advocacy Excelined, said that the developments of phones throughout the day have gone out of class, as when students founded or recorded fighting in the halls.
“That’s often when you get some of your biggest behavior problems, whether they are viral or not,” Hoffman said.
However, other countries, especially where there are a strong tradition of local school control, order only that school districts accept some policy of mobile phones, they believe that districts will have help and sharply reduce the phone’s access. In Maine, where some legislators originally proposed a ban on school day, legislators are now considering an overwritten account that would only require politics.
And there are several states where the legislators did not at all. Perhaps the most dramatic was in Wyoming, where the senators voted in January, some opponents said that teachers or parents should set the rules.
Where politicians have moved forward, there is a consensus about exceptions. Most countries allow students to use electronic equipment to monitor medical needs and meet the conditions of their special educational plans. Some allow exceptions to translation facilities if English is not a student’s first language or if the teacher wants students to use the classroom equipment.
There are also unusual exceptions. The original policy of South Carolina has made an exception for students who are volunteers of firefighters. The new Western Virginia law allows smart watches if they are not used for communication.
However, by far the most important exception was the use of mobile phones in an emergency. One of the most common objections of parents against the ban is that they could not contact their child in crisis as school shooting.
“Only through text messages were parents who knew what was happening,” said Tinya Brown, whose daughter is a newcomer at Apalachee, northeast of Atlanta, where shooting killed two students and two teachers in September. She spoke against the Georgian law at a press conference in March.
Some laws require schools to find other ways to communicate with their children in schools, but most legislators claim to support students access to their mobile phones, at least after an immediate danger in an emergency.
In some countries, students were evidenced in favor of the regulations, but it is also clear that many students, especially in secondary schools, are under the rules. Kanytlin Villescas, Sophomore on Prairieville High School, in the suburbs of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is one student who has taken the fight against bans, launched a petition, and said WBBrz-TV in August that Louisiana was wrong. She claimed that schools should teach responsible use instead.
“It is our claim that rather than the prohibiting use of mobile phones, schools should pass instructions on responsible use, building a culture of respect and self -regulation,” Villecsas wrote in an online petition.
Several countries have provided the districts money to buy lockable bushings for a phone storage or other storage solutions. For example, New York plans to spend $ 13.5 million. However, states usually did not provide any cash. New Hampshire legislators undressed their $ 1 million from their account.
“The provision of some specific money for this would make some of these implementation challenges easier,” Hoffman said. “This means most states not.”
Associated Press Reporters Becky Bohrer on Juneau on Alaska; Susan Haigh in Hartford, Connecticut; Jack Dura in Bismarck in Northern Dakota; And Kate Payne contributed in Tallahassee in Florida.
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