Why not leave the autonomy to the teachers? I get that you’re helping those teachers that do have a problem with it, but the word prohibit implies that even the teachers that dont have an issue with it have to comply. Why not just back up a teacher’s sovereignty over their phone policy in the classroom? Also there very well could be many unforseen consequences. My school district blocks some instructional materials & the only way to access it is through our phones. So you’re taking, when doing classwork independent of instruction (such as on a google doc) i find it easier to concentrate with music playing. One of the results is absenteeism in classrooms, yet they dont think as to how this policy will exacerbate it? This further incentivizes skipping school. As niel degrasse tyson points out, kids are typically full of curiosity but school beats it out of them by revoking their autonomy. Kids learn to associate learning with having no independence. This will further exacerbate absenteeism and further discourage learning, mark my words.
