{"id":12335,"date":"2024-08-27T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2024-08-27T11:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T11:25:54","slug":"banning-cell-phones-in-wi-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12335","title":{"rendered":"Banning Cell Phones in WI Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/banning-cell-phones-in-wi-schools\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/banning-cell-phones-in-wi-schools\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a press release last week, Republican State Senator Dan Knodl, currently a candidate for the State Assembly, says he will introduce a bill that will limit students\u2019 cell phone use in schools. Knodl says, quote, \u201cFrom red to blue states, legislatures across the country are coalescing around the idea that too much screen time is a negative mental health outcome. More succinctly, they are a significant distraction in the classroom and lead to a loss in learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles school district has banned student cell phone usage during the school day, and New York City is considering a similar policy. If large school districts in liberal states and cities are willing to take what some believe is drastic action, it\u2019s time our Wisconsin schools and even the legislature seriously study and act responsibly on this issue, for the well-being of students.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/banning-cell-phones-in-wi-schools\/ In a press release last week, Republican State Senator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12336,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions\/12336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}