A new study found that 74 percent of adults would support banning middle and high school students from using cellphones in class, up from 68 percent when the question was posed just last year.
Among respondents ages 18 to 29 — those who understand the impact of phones at school best — support for banning phones in class rose particularly sharply, increasing from 45 percent in fall 2024 to 57 percent when polled in June of 2025.
Opposition to such proposed bans also declined from 24 percent to just 19 percent.
My question:
What is wrong with the 19 percent of people who oppose such a ban?
Are these also the Flat Earthers?
The chemtrail conspiracy conspiracists?
The people who believe birds aren’t real (an actual thing) and Stevie Wonder isn’t blind?
Are these the dummies who think the Moon landing was faked, vaccines are harmful, and the Jets are a good football team?
They must be. Right?
Why would anyone think that having a phone in class is a good idea?
To what purpose could this possibly serve?
How do phones not make school more difficult for teachers and students alike?
Support for banning phones all day is considerably more split:
44 percent are in favor
46 percent are opposed
However, support for banning phones during the school day is also increasing, probably because students don’t need them during the school day. Secure the phone in a locker or Yondr pouch at the start of the school day, and return them to students at the end of the day.
It would take some time, effort, and money to put a system like this in place, but the return on investment would be enormous.
Well worth every penny and minute spent spooling up the process.
I suppose I should be happy that nearly three-quarters of all adults support banning phones in the classroom, and nearly half support banning phones in all of school, except I would expect the number of adults who want phones banned in class to be 100%.
How could it not?
Sometimes 74% seems like an enormous number, and sometimes 19% seems like a small number, but when it comes to something as obvious and important as banning phones in the classroom, those numbers are not good enough.
Not nearly.
