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> You can just not have phones, but it's socially isolating.

I hear this plenty, but kids are literally forced to go be with their peers (hopefully including some friends) for 6+ hours a day (in my country). Don't they have enough time to arrange their social lives in person?

It’s not as bad as phone apologists say.

[j45]

Agreed, students in schools seem to be regularly reporting an improved environment as unmanaged phone use went away.