Social networks aren't the only reason that phones shouldn't be in schools. There are very few good reasons why a kid should be looking at their phone in school

Social networks aren't the only reason that phones shouldn't be in schools. There are very few good reasons why a kid should be looking at their phone in school. Kids having phones is just a sweet spot where parental paranoia (legitimate) intersected with the opportunity to indulge your children (they're begging for it), with a luxury item that kids could discriminate against each other over (social disorder.) I accept that it's understandable that we did the experiment, because it was a new device, but it offers no significant benefit to the parents and children (in fact playing into their neuroticism), and allowed companies a new way to go after those children to exploit their insecurities for money. It's moronic that we got rid of Saturday morning cartoons because they were just longform ads aimed at kids (but they were fun!), yet we allowed this contagion in school. They shouldn't even be on Wikipedia in school. There's a teacher there, speaking, and a book. Look at Wikipedia at home. The teacher is expensive and only available at certain times, Wikipedia is cheap and always there.