I genuinely believe that if we want kids to have some normalcy here we need to flat out ban smartphone for kids up to say 16-18 years old and instead dumb phones should be the norm instead.
Because it's not just social media, it's the entire 24/7 jumping around different apps all the time that is screwing them up.
Before kids would get bored playing video games and then instead wanting to go out and play.
Now it's going from one app to another once they are bored.
I think most people would agree, but problem is enforcement. I worked 20 years in a low SES school where education was less valued. What do you do when you try to take the phone and they refuse? Suspend them? Sure. Then they come back and do it again. Then the state does an analysis and you have to explain that there is a significant number of students missing school because of a phone? They talk to you like it's ridiculous. Kids need to be in school. If you can solve the "what to do if they don't put it away" problem you'd be a hero in education.
Because it's not just social media, it's the entire 24/7 jumping around different apps all the time that is screwing them up.
Before kids would get bored playing video games and then instead wanting to go out and play.
Now it's going from one app to another once they are bored.