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