Episode
Why school cellphone bans are spreading
- Podcast
- Harvard Thinking
- Published
- Sep 25, 2024
- Duration seconds
- 1859
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/harvard-thinking-6767250/episodes/why-school-cellphone-bans-are-spreading/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/harvard-thinking-6767250/why-school-cellphone-bans-are-spreading.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Schools are banning cellphones. And some states and cities are passing legislation that restricts student phone use in the classroom. Both parents and students have pushed back, yet schools say the removal of phones eliminates distractions and fosters face-to-face interactions that students themselves have come to appreciate. In this episode, host Samantha Laine Perfas talks with psychologist Laurie Santos, private school administrator Joy McGrath, and psychiatrist Susan Linn about what it would look like to take phones out of classrooms.