Jonathan Haidt

Let them know you support COSA, the Kids Online Safety Act.

The Senate passed it almost unanimously.

It was like 97 to 3.

But I'm very excited about this.

And I think the phone-free schools is the place where it's starting.

A whole bunch of states have already said they're going to go phone-free statewide.

Los Angeles School District announced it a month ago.

New York City is going to announce it very soon.

So I'm actually really optimistic that that at least school districts and states are going to go phone free in school.

So first, let's distinguish between what are you saying about phones in school and what are you saying about phones at home?

Now, you've always had the right to talk about what to do at school.

Parents respect that.

And I guarantee you other teachers in your school and your principal probably are reading about this.

So if you raise the subject, if you say, hey, can we go phone-free, you're going to find a lot more support than you expect because things are really different than they were six months ago.

So that's the first thing.

You can definitely go phone-free in school.

So we're seeing schools all around the country saying, this is such a catastrophe for learning.

We see it in test scores.

We see it in discipline.

We're dealing with it at school by going phone-free.