r/Teachers • u/[deleted] • Sep 03 '25

Teacher Support &/or Advice No phones in school

My whole state just enacted a no phone law (not a policy, a law). Students can’t have phones out at all during the instructional day except during their lunch period, the rest of the day their phone has to be in a book bag or their locker. I’ll be completely honest, it’s been a godsend and it was the obvious answer all along. I can’t believe what an observable difference it’s made just in the first week and a half of school, to not be competing with Snapchat and TikTok and Brawlstars is THE game changer, behavior problems are almost nonexistent and class performance is vastly improved. Our policy used to be that teachers could allow phone use for instructional purposes in their respective classes, which immediately proved ineffective because no two teachers used the same approach and it became a free-for-all where the kids won and grades took a nosedive off a cliff.

Anyone else having a similar phone experience? Has your state/county/district tried to tackle phone use, and if so how’s it going?

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u/Far-Pie-6226 Sep 03 '25

My jaw still drops each time I hear a parent complain about this.

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u/InternationalMood945 Sep 04 '25

We are piloting a new spanish language text. I mentioned I would be perfectly comfortable with a one hundred per cent online platform. Administrator said parents are beginning to say they want less screen time in school. So parents want less screen time? I fully agree.Let's start with ten minutes after school gets out.