> Lots of people in the comments supporting cellphone bans in school. To play the devil's advocate: the role of high school is to transition students between ch

> Lots of people in the comments supporting cellphone bans in school. To play the devil's advocate: the role of high school is to transition students between childhood and adulthood. In adulthood, nobody will tell you to get off your phone. You can get fired or people can stop associating with you though. Not allowed to do that to students. > You will simply suffer repercussions if you cannot preform. If you can perform, nobody should care. So why are we babying students by incessant confiscation and phone cubby nonsense? Because it disturbs and distracts other students, mostly. > Redirect them, sure. Teach about tech literacy. Nobody does that for you in adulthood either though, so that's not a good argument when it's used selectively like that. School is not adulthood, it's totally different, and phones are a pretty insignificant part of that.