Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has said that children should not be using cell phones in schools, citing the health impacts of cell phones as well as the success of state laws that have banned cell phones in their schools.
“Cell phones also produce electric, magnetic radiation, which has been shown to damage, to do neurological damage to kids when it’s around them all day, and to and to cause cellular damage and even cancer,” Kennedy told Fox and Friends during a segment.
“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. And you know … other countries that have done this, 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.”
Kennedy also spoke about going to Virginia and visiting a school with Governor Glenn Youngkin and saying that the schools that have implemented the ban are doing better.
Multiple studies have shown the negative mental health impacts of excessive cell phone usage on teens. Additionally, the majority of Americans, seven in 10, support the ban on cell phone use in schools, according to a survey conducted by Talker Research the New York Post reported. […]
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