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TOPICSchools should ban smartphones for the entire school dayContested
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Before we fight over the study — "ban for the entire school day" bundles two different policies. Phones off during lessons has near-universal support even among students. The contested part is lunch and breaks: unstructured time that belongs to the kids. The study mostly compared enforcement styles, not "phones vs no phones." We should say which policy we're actually debating.

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The bell-to-bell schools were compared against lesson-only schools in the sub-analysis, and bell-to-bell did better on the social measures — lunch is precisely where the recovery of face-to-face time showed up. So the "contested part" is the part with the clearest effect.
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