Irish town unites in smartphone ban for young children

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Thought it was funny that despite the billions the government get from these social tech giants, the minister comes out in favour of the ban

I would love something like this for my kids. Are there any ways to support or at least find movements like this?

Maybe I should look for cases where smartphone bans on school/village/town level and but them all together in a link list.

You might try contacting the school in this article [1], which has banned phones. Or this one [2], which has done the same. And this article [3] mentions a few more.

I took those links from an article in The Atlantic [4] Get Phones Out of Schools Now, which you might find interesting.

EDIT to add that The Atlantic article has a comment thread on HN [5].

[1] https://eu.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2022/04/01/m...

[2] https://triblive.com/local/penn-hills/no-cell-phones-for-pen...

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-schools-ce...

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/ban-smartp...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36221041

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