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Wyoming advisory committee urges 'move toward phone‑free' schools after parent survey and literature review
Summary
A Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) told the Wyoming Board of Education that social media and smartphone use are correlated with higher anxiety, sleep loss and attention fragmentation in students and recommended policies ranging from delaying smartphones to a school‑day phone‑free approach, starting with high school.
At its April meeting the Wyoming Board of Education heard a report from the district’s Citizen Advisory Committee on social media’s effects on students and families. The committee summarized a literature review and a parent survey and offered a set of recommendations the district could consider.
The CAC’s presenter told the board, “we were tasked to examine the impact of social media on students and families,” and said the group studied two media sources in particular — the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma and Jonathan Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation — alongside published research and a parent survey that yielded 283 responses.
The nut graf: Committee members said their findings link increased smartphone and social‑media use to four recurring harms for young people — social deprivation, sleep disruption, attention fragmentation and…
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