The study suggests that banning the phone in schools does not help grades or health

The ban on schools in schools is not associated with students who get higher degrees or get a better mental luxury, the first study of its kind is suggested.
Academics found that students sleep, semester behavior, exercise, or the duration they spend on their phones in general, do not differ for schools that contain the blocking of the phone and schools without them.
But they found that spending for a longer period on smartphones and social media in general is linked to worse results for all of these measures.
The first study in the world to view the rules of the school phone, as well as health and education measures that feed on a fierce discussion played in homes and schools in recent years.
Dr. Victoria Judyier, the main author of the study, told the BBC that the results are not “against” the ban on smartphones in schools, but “what we propose is that this ban in isolation is not enough to address negative effects.”
She said that “focus” should now reduce the amount of time that students spend on their phones, adding: “We need to do more than just banning phones in schools.”
The results of the University of Birmingham, the peer review and publish it by Lancet Magazine for European Health PolicyI compared 1,227 students and the rules that were 30 different secondary schools to use smartphones in lunch and lunch times.
Schools were chosen from a sample of 1,341 main government schools in England.
The paper says that schools that restrict the use of a smartphone do not seem to see their intended improvements in health, luxury and focus in lessons.
But the research has found a link between more time on phones and social media, worse mental luxury, mental health, lower physical activity, weaker sleep, lower degrees, and the behavior of the most introductory classroom.
The study used the internationally recognized mental welfare scale and Edinberg to determine the welfare of the participants. I also looked at the levels of anxiety and depression among students.
I asked the teachers of the model about whether their students were on the goal, below or the highest goal in English and mathematics.
“On their phones all the time”
Charlie obtained his first smartphone in the eighth year – but the imposed prohibition means that he was not allowed to bring him until the sixth model began.
Anyone arrested a smartphone at the lower school at the Treeford School, west of London, its confiscation of the rest of the period, which senior employees say is so “unpopular” that it works as a strong deterrent.
Charlie says that a smartphone ban “forces you to hold and chat with your friends.”
Now in the thirteenth year, it is believed that the ban on the lower school “perhaps” helped him spend less time passing on social media – but he says that many of his friends are still “on their phones all the time.”

Katian, headed by the Holly Trainte Catholic School in the little Heath, Birmingham, feels a “moral commitment” to help students learn to use their phones in a “safe space and observation”.
He says that the issues related to the phone, such as devices that are distraction from learning, are “minimal” because his students appreciate the “freedom” that he gave to use in the break and lunch.
“It is a pivotal part of their lives outside the school [teachers to] Then he moved to the worlds of restrictions inside the school, and we will eventually prepare ourselves in a battle that we will not win. “
But students in other schools where phones are banned have told the BBC News that they have seen benefits such as less bullying and better social skills – the factors that are not included in the study of the University of Birmingham. Its authors said that more research in this field is needed to draw any links.
In Conwy, Ysgo AberconWy has recently changed the rules so that students’ phones are locked within magnetic bags unless the teacher opens them for use during the classroom.
The school cites the research that suggests High feeling of loneliness in schoolAnd the proposal Time is associated with social media with a decrease in life for some children.
Georgi, 15, before changing the base, said the atmosphere at the school was “very aggressive”.
“There were a lot of battles, and people were withdrawing their phones and starting to photograph it. Many people will be very upset,” she said.
Now, Georgi feels that the arguments are not escalating much or much.
“People have come close, because they are speaking to face,” she said.
It is the change of the sister of Georgi, Charlotte, 12, who found “reassuring” to hear her, as she started the seventh year.
The main teacher Ian Gerrard says that while the bullying has not been completely eliminated, the bags have created a “safe space inside the school” where students do not need concern about these things.

Although there is no clear evidence, Georgi Sarah’s mother says she is “completely” supports Airconoi’s policy.
She says she found it difficult not to be able to send a message to her children during the exam time.
She said, “It would be good to be able to communicate with them sometimes so that they can say,” Was everything going well? “
Other schools have found that parents who want to contact children to be an adherent point when introducing new rules on phones.
Within a few weeks from the Fulham Boys School in West London, it brought a “brick” phone policy only in September, the students were “more than that,” says the teacher David Smith – but “Titlin problems” came from parents who are concerned about Their children travel through the capital without applications to help them.
One of the students recently got a bus walking in the wrong direction, and ended up at the other end of the line to his home alive – without a smartphone on him to check a map or call the house.


The study may intensify the discussion on it Whether it should be stopped less than 16 years of completely smartphones.
Some schools say It is related to parents to act.
The Conservative Party is among these Pressure on the government To tighten restrictions inside schools.
The Labor Party has already said The answer can lie in the ban on social media for less than 16 years Like in Australia.
In response to a study of the University of Birmingham, a government official said that teachers have “clear directions” to manage the use of the phone in a way that worked in their schools.
The online safety law, which will soon come, will protect young people from harmful content and guarantee suitable experience for age online.
“More strong evidence is needed to reach clear conclusions about the impact of smartphones on children, and for this reason we launched our own research, led by Cambridge University, to the impact of social media on the well -being of children in general,” the official added.
Participated in additional reports by Branwin Jeffrez and Amal Rhodes.