A new study found that 74 percent of adults would support banning middle and high school students from using cellphones in class, which is up from 68 percent compared to that question posed in the fall. Opposition to such proposed bans also declined from 24 percent to 19 percent. Support for banning phones all day is considerably more split — 44 percent in favor, 46 percent opposed — but that has also shifted in the months since the issue was polled. Among respondents aged 18 to 29, support for banning phones in class rose particularly sharply, increasing from 45 percent in Fall 2024 to 57 percent when polled in June.
Jeffrey Gottfried, Eugenie Park and Monica Anderson, Pew Research Center
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