Some people believe that children should be banned from using their phones during the school day. Others believe that children should be allowed to use their phones. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

I strongly disagree with the opinion of

children

should be able to

use

their

phones

while they are at

school

during learning hours. There should be no world in which

children

under the age of 13 are allowed to

use

mobile

devices

during a day of

school

. Gen Z is a human generation defined by the fact that people born in

this

generation are exposed to the internet and smart

devices

since they were born.

Consequently

,

children

are now more addicted to their smart

devices

than ever before.

This

constant stimulation of the brain is something the human brain is not evolved to process and balance out. Meaning, in most cases,

smartphones

, or portable smart

devices

, in general, are very harmful to the brain’s reward system, rendering the

children

unable to be motivated to study or participate in physical activities. Having

children

using their

phones

at

school

is a disaster for education. Modern

smartphones

with many functionalities and applications designed to capture the users' attention are direct competitions to the education happening in

school

. Even if schools ban the

use

of

smartphones

during class and only allow break time usage, the presence of the

devices

and the urge to

use

them alone is enough to steer the attention of the students away from the lecture and have them thinking about what they would do in their app of choice in half an hour. Human attention and willpower are not limitless, and having

phones

in schools’ perimeter is not ideal for preserving it for learning. The exception could be the

use

of “dumb”

phones

for communicating with parents only. But no one in the right mind should regulate the

use

of

smartphones

at schools.