Students have gotten smartphones at younger and younger ages since you were in school. They got addicted to the dopamine feedback loop smartphones provide when

Students have gotten smartphones at younger and younger ages since you were in school. They got addicted to the dopamine feedback loop smartphones provide when their brains were even further undeveloped and don't remember a time before that so this is their norm. Parents have thrown up their hands and given up, pretending that it's impossible to avoid buying their kids expensive super computers engineered to steal the attention of their users rather than just buying their kids dumb Nokia bricks and letting them learn to be bored and cultivate the ability to direct their attention and concentration.