[zx90]

Using a dumb-phone is the reason a pre-teen neighbor of mine got bullied. So much that she ended up stealing money to get herself a smartphone. Shortly afterwards the parents folded and became less strict with their anti-consumerism stance.

[FinnLobsien]

yeah but isn't that precisely what banning smartphones in schools fixes? Nobody said anything about outside of school.

[zx90]

Sorry, I was not clear.

Absolutely smartphones should be banned, at least during lessons, and at best during the whole time in the school, recess, etc.

Giving a child a dumb-phone in an environment where everybody else uses a smartphone doesn't work. If smarphones are not banned then _all_ will end up with a smartphone, and socialisation difficulties, etc...

This is a case where individual freedoms end up in collective damage. Maybe I'm an outlier here but I'd ban all kinds of social media all the time.