Should phones be banned from schools? No, the reality is more complicated than that

While the US government hasn’t done much at the federal level to ban or limit smartphones in schools, many schools have developed policies or enacted bans of their own. A few states have even passed some form of school phone ban, including California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, and a few others. The extent to which these bans limit use varies from state to state. As a father of three, including one teenager, I actually support the idea of phone bans in schools — but only to a point.