Unless you want prison rules or to counteract decades long policy of not academically punishing protected classes of students you cannot effectively ban Phones in the Public School System.
You often can't seize the device. If the student says no you risk physical escalation. Students are VERY protective of their phone due to the personal content on devices.
You often can't suspend or academically punish the student. There are VERY strong incentives in public school systems not to further bury an underperforming student, minority students, and similar criteria. The student may WANT to be suspended.
Students can easily hide the device, like in their underwear, purse, whatever. Again unless you want prison-level strip searches there really isn't a way around this.
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Honestly I think we'd need state/regulatory/infrastructure level tools to enact a ban policy. Think signal-jammers, vpns on legitimate devices, etc. It would be a massive IT cost to enact. IMO it would be worth it, but I don't think society would bare the cost because too few care about education beyond its function as childcare - we have a entire political party that wants to disband the Department of Education.
That's why owning and operating smart phones should sinply be illegal for children. Where the age limit should be is debatable, but letting as young as 12-year olds have one is an absurd failure for a society.
You often can't seize the device. If the student says no you risk physical escalation. Students are VERY protective of their phone due to the personal content on devices.
You often can't suspend or academically punish the student. There are VERY strong incentives in public school systems not to further bury an underperforming student, minority students, and similar criteria. The student may WANT to be suspended.
Students can easily hide the device, like in their underwear, purse, whatever. Again unless you want prison-level strip searches there really isn't a way around this.
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Honestly I think we'd need state/regulatory/infrastructure level tools to enact a ban policy. Think signal-jammers, vpns on legitimate devices, etc. It would be a massive IT cost to enact. IMO it would be worth it, but I don't think society would bare the cost because too few care about education beyond its function as childcare - we have a entire political party that wants to disband the Department of Education.