School smartphone bans seen as ‘punitive’ by young people, study says

According to University College London research published this week, school smartphone bans may be backfiring. Young people see outright bans as punitive rather than helpful — a finding that arrives just as England's new statutory ban took effect yesterday, making schools legally responsible for keeping phones off campus all day.

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