My wife’s private school has this policy.

One person per class has cell phone, as senior reliable kid who is a proctor.

Kids must book out their cell phone one hour per day. All phones tablets and laptops are handed in at 10:30 to locked filing cabinet. Failure to comply means loss of privilege for one week. Students sign out laptop each day with a proctor note that the class needs them.

Add a Facebook fast or detox for good measure. With so many of the top apps(starting with texting) being predicated on reaction (look at studies on a typical text or email response{which is the expectation} rather than considered response; it would be fascinating to determine what improvement would occur if folks merely went into considered response rather than instant reaction.

Just because a technology has a performance capability does not mean that one has to immediately become enslaved to this one element.

I do not deem any of the apps to be inherently bad.  However, I find the fact that not one use of technology course has found its way into the K-12 system as an exemplar to be profoundly odd and disturbing.

My friends’ daughter’s private school in New York has this policy.

No electricity.

They write by lamp light with quill and ink. One phone call per month. Stationary, rotary phone in headmistress’ office.

It’s an elite high academics classical education school - NO KIDDING!

(She has a cell phone and full internet access on her breaks at home. These breaks are a little more frequent than at other schools, but shorter.)

Extreme…....? Or healthy…...? Kids go on to Ivy League universities and do well.