Phoning it in: Toothless phone bans reveal the new education class divide

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Quick, what issue unites Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom? You’d be hard-pressed to find many topics that the conservative stalwart and his progressive counterpart agree on, but the Florida and California governors have both signed bills that restrict phone use in public schools. Ohio, South Carolina, and several other states have recently followed suit. A rare moment of bipartisan comity seems poised to upend our previously lax approach to social media-addled children.   

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