I personally think that responsible smartphone use should be learned and practiced, rather than outright banning them.
I think this shows that adults are terribly addicted to their devices and think if they can’t stop using them, children won’t either. They certainly can’t teach how to use phones responsibly if they can’t do it themselves. Unfortunately for children the result is an outright ban.
If anything i feel that the smartphone use shows how fucking terrible the school system is, we should fix the system so students are actually interested in learning and aren’t simply doing it because we threaten them with what is effectively a death sentence in a very roundabout way.