American parents want their children to have phones in schools

“It’s like they don’t belief us,” says Eva King, a 14-year-old pupil at Alice Deal Center Faculty in Washington, DC. She is standing outdoors the varsity throughout dismissal with two others who nod their heads and snicker in settlement. Deal’s administration has banned cell phones throughout the complete faculty day. Pupils should retailer their units inside Yondr pouches, gray padded instances that supposedly will be opened solely with a particular device. The adults unlock the pouches with particular magnets as pupils depart for the day.

Unsurprisingly, pupils have hacked the system. (“What do you count on?” Eva says. “We’re middle-schoolers.”) The women recite an inventory of workarounds. These magnets have grow to be sizzling commodities, and some have gone lacking. Pupils have been seen banging pouches open within the bathrooms. Different pupils have defective instances that not lock however have stored that info to themselves. The women say that since telephones have grow to be a forbidden fruit, pupils solely crave them extra. They hope their faculty will reverse course after the summer season break.