Comment by DoingIsLearning
20 days ago
Your appealing to authority with a lancet article but the article just concludes that kids don't spend less time on their phones because of the school bans.
Irrespective of brain feedback mechanisms after school it is still a better teaching/learning environment for students to have a device ban during school time.
What kids or parents enable after school is beyond school policies. Nevertheless teachers should be minimally protected in their ability to teach and kids in their ability to learn.
Somewhat ironically given the topic, you are misreading the scientific article:
> No significant differences in pupil outcomes were observed between permissive and restrictive schools for all other behavioural outcomes (Fig. 2, Table 3) or for attainment in English (adjusted odds ratio 1.45, 95% CI 0.85–2.47, p = 0.18, reference = permissive) and Maths (adjusted odds ratio 1.01, 95% CI 0.45–2.27, p = 0.98, reference = permissive).
Nothing I've said could be interpreted to support the exposure of kids to addictive devices, simply that the quick fix proposed does not seem to have any effect.