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School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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Re: School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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Forcing every adult to exercise 30 minutes a day would probably also have positive health outcomes. But would that be a good enough reason to introduce such a policy?

In US schools most students are forced to exercise about 30 minutes per day during gym class. I had this from at least 6th-10th grade, though maybe only a handful of days per week had any serious exercise, usually running or playing sports like soccer or basketball.

Re: School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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post #9

Forcing every adult to exercise 30 minutes a day would probably also have positive health outcomes. But would that be a good enough reason to introduce such a policy?

Something something "my body my choice"

The mere thought of someone advising them would be literal hell.

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I feel like giving teachers and schools more freedoms to implement these things would be a great overall effect.

We've seen a large reduction of what teachers are able to do in the last few decades because the school districts have continuously pushed bad policies to protect them against liability and extra work. My parents were both in the school system and every year they would get more rules to protect the district by pushing more work onto them.

The school system has a lot of similarities to have Boeing has been run recently. The board and admins make all the decisions while the people who deliver the value get the short end of the stick.

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post #9

Forcing every adult to exercise 30 minutes a day would probably also have positive health outcomes. But would that be a good enough reason to introduce such a policy?

I would make use of the increase in my strength and stamina to be very vigorously angry about being forced to exercise.

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post #9

Forcing every adult to exercise 30 minutes a day would probably also have positive health outcomes. But would that be a good enough reason to introduce such a policy?

It would, but when you reach a certain age these institutions dont have power over you anymore to such an extent and when reintroduced to being as controlled as people were when they were back in school but in their adult lives at their older age they tend to freak out.

Yes 30 minutes of exercise a day and other ”law” like one preventing people from overeating to where they wouldn’t be able to walk anymore would be wildly positive but seeing as it’d impose on the freedom to be unhealthy it would not work.

Re: School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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post #9

Forcing every adult to exercise 30 minutes a day would probably also have positive health outcomes. But would that be a good enough reason to introduce such a policy?

In US schools most students are forced to exercise about 30 minutes per day during gym class. I had this from at least 6th-10th grade, though maybe only a handful of days per week had any serious exercise, usually running or playing sports like soccer or basketball.

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Re: School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study

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I feel like smartphones should be banned but > On average, they were falling asleep 20 minutes faster than before the ban, 20 minutes seems like kind of a small impact.

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> 50 minutes earlier during the phone ban weeks compared to the week before the phone ban

That’s a big improvement. Combined with them falling asleep faster, that seems like an hour of extra sleep at least.

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