US school banned smartphones, and students are (mostly) OK with it
In Florida, a US school district banned smartphones entirely. Teachers seem to love it and students are pretty OK with it, too.
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In Florida, a US school district banned smartphones entirely. Teachers seem to love it and students are pretty OK with it, too.
One afternoon in late September, hundreds of students at Timber Creek High School in Orlando poured into the campus’s sprawling central courtyard to hang out and eat lunch. For members of an extremely online generation, their activities were decidedly analog.
In Florida, of all places, where government typically meddles in public schools with bad intentions and even worse results, they may actually have done a good thing for a change.
Schools in Orlando took a tougher approach than a new state law required. Student engagement increased. So did the hunt for contraband phones.
The ban went into effect in September, and has prohibited pupils in Orlando's Orange County public schools system from using their devices since.