{"id":843736,"date":"2024-08-12T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=843736"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T07:11:13","slug":"why-schools-are-racing-to-ban-student-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/12\/why-schools-are-racing-to-ban-student-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Why schools are racing to ban student phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cellphones have become a school scourge. More than 70% of high school teachers say student phone distraction is a \u201cmajor problem,\u201d according to a survey this year by Pew Research.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why states are mounting a bipartisan effort to crack down on rampant student cellphone use. So far this year, at least eight states have passed laws, issued orders or adopted rules to curb phone use among students during school hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellphones have become a school scourge. More than 70% of high school teachers say student phone distraction is a \u201cmajor problem,\u201d according to a survey this year by Pew Research. That\u2019s why states are mounting a bipartisan effort to crack down on rampant student cellphone use. So far this year, at least eight states have passed laws, issued orders or adopted rules to curb phone use among students during school hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}