Locked Up and Learning Nothing

Five thousand schools. Yondr pouches in every classroom. Phones locked away for the entire day.In Episode 19 of The Dark Side of the Moon, James, Darren and Garland sit with the first serious study on what happens when you actually do the thing everyone has been calling for. The headline finding is not what the parents at the school gate want to hear.Jonathan Haidt has spent two years convincing the world the phone is the problem. The pouches were the answer. The research has now landed. The hosts read it carefully and arrive somewhere none of them expected.Darren closes the episode with a line worth writing down.Study: Mixed Results and Impacts From School Phone Bans, DataIK12