Technology

Oh, well, most adults being paid to pefrom their role, their tasks and duties, at a job, most of them are essentially de facto capable of role modelling proper phone usage, otherwise they'd be fired.

You just don't use it while you're actively working, you know, actively engaged in the act of teaching a lesson, overseeing a lab day, etc.

If a teacher was constantly on their phone, while they're supposed to be teaching, they'd get reported and reprimanded and eventually fired.

This isn't disingenuous, to hold this assumption... this is how things have worked for a long time.

Yeah, yeah a construction or transport crew should also have restrictions on distracted driving or otherwise operating a multi ton vehicle, yes, same as a forklift operator.

They should be fired if they egregiously violate safety protocols.

Systems exist and have existed to do this.

The problem that is going on in schools is that a combination of over-exhausted and underpaid teachers, combined with incompetent/corrupt admins have just looked the other way on this for so long that its become a problem not only in schools, but also all the places those kids who went to those schools go after they've graduated.

The solution is not to equivocate, the solution is having higher standards.

And just to be clear: addictive behaviors and patterns start in adolescence, and then progress and worsen and broaden when they are not identified and addressed.

This is ... very widely the consensus of all kinds of studies into all kinds of addiction.

So having teachers model proper usage of the useful but potentially very addictive device... is arguably the most important area of society to do this with.

If you want a society that isn't constantly distracted by their rectangles... you should exemplify to them how to properly use the rectangles from a young age.