Niamh Harris
Director of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr says that children should not be using cellphones in schools.
He claims they affect children’s health and their academic performance.
In an interview with Fox and Friends on Thursday Kennedy said: “Cell phone use and social media use on the cell phone has been directly connected with depression, with poor performance in schools, with suicidal ideation, with substance abuse.”
He added that they “produce electric, magnetic radiation, which has been shown to do neurological damage to kids when it’s around them all day, and to cause cellular damage and even cancer”
“And you know, other countries that have done this (banned cellphones in schools). The states that are doing this have found that it is a much healthier environment when kids are not using cell phones in schools. And the teachers loved it” he continued.
While he believes that cellphones should be kept out of schools, he also thinks that parents should be making the decision themselves.
RFK Jr. on why kids should not be able to use cellphones in schools
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) March 22, 2025
According to a recent survey aprroximately 80% of American parents support a school ban.
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Via https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/rfk-jr-wants-to-ban-cell-phones-in-schools/
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Good idea, but this is not a federal government responsibility. Schools are primarily funded by local and state taxes, and parents are primarily responsible for childrens’ education, discipline, and health.
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I think you’re right in theory about parental rights and responsibilities, Katherine, but the US courts have consistently held that schools have an in locum parentis responsibility where parents have to work and can’t be in the classroom to monitor their kids’ behavior. You’re right that the federal government can’t directly legislate what happens in schools. At the moment, they can only withhold Department of Education funding the vast majority of states rely on owing to chronic fiscal problems. They will change, of course, if Trump succeeds in abolishing the Department of Education.
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