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There is a mental health crisis among youth. I will tell you this now that we have thousands and thousands of
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educators and hopefully if you're listening to this and you know anybody who's a school teacher, please send them
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to our phones andfocus.org survey. But now that we have some responses, I will tell you what the
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principles and the teachers are telling us. They say that yeah, test scores are influences by cell phone policy. So are
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the number of books checked out of the library going up in schools that have lower or I should say more restrictive
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policies. But social emotional outcomes they say when we started a policy that really restricted phone use during
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school hours. They made eye contact with each other more. They talked to each other more. You actually hear noise in
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the cafeteria. The noise the den of young people interact with each other. Before it was like you could hear a pin
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drop because the kids would just be silently scrolling through something with their thumb and shoveling food into
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their mouths. So I really I don't want to sound like a lite but I worry about
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young people not interacting with each other not having realistic sensible ideas about what is expected of them.
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And I worry about their attention.