Minneapolis, MN · Issue of September 9, 2026
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Your teenager is using it. So is their teacher. The households that have settled this did not write a ban — they wrote three lines about when it is a calculator and when it is a ghostwriter.
Priya Raman4 min
Most family phone agreements are written in the week a phone is bought and abandoned within a term. We asked fourteen households what survived, and one clause showed up in every arrangement still standing after a year.
Priya Raman2 min
Bell-to-bell phone bans went from a fringe policy to the default in a few short years. We asked three districts a year in — and, more usefully, asked the parents what changed at home, which is the part nobody measures.
Priya Raman3 min