{"id":137358,"date":"2025-08-11T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137358\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:20:25","slug":"texas-school-cellphone-ban-takes-effect-news-radio-1200-woai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/137358\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas School Cellphone Ban Takes Effect | News Radio 1200 WOAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The school year kicks off today for many Texas students, and among the major changes, there&#8217;s one major change that everyone can expect during the 2025-26 school year: students will no longer be permitted to use their cell phones during the school day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is expected to have a number of benefits for students across the state. Psychologist Dr. Josh Briley with Parkland Health spoke about the potential benefits, saying, &#8220;There have been studies conducted that showed decreases in anxiety and depression among students and also a slight bump in test scores.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Briley also says this could lead to students spending more time speaking to and interacting with one another, which could lead to improved social skills.<\/p>\n<p>He did warn, however, that despite all the expected benefits of the change, it would be a difficult transition because most of these students had grown accustomed to having a phone available constantly. He said in the first month or so, we should expect to see increases in anxiety and even depression, likening it to a detox period.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Briley also warned that this could be a difficult transition for parents, who have become accustomed to being able to reach their children easily, even when they&#8217;re at school. The good news is, there&#8217;s a way for parents to capitalize on this.<\/p>\n<p>Briley advised parents, saying, &#8220;Since we&#8217;re making this change for the school day anyway, I recommend that families take this opportunity to review their own cell phone use. You know, is everybody, every minute that they&#8217;re together, all stuck in their phone?&#8221; He suggested designating specific times, like car rides or family meals, to be phone-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The school year kicks off today for many Texas students, and among the major changes, there&#8217;s one major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,32558,32557,32556,32559,50,7202,7203,62,7199,358,314,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-137358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-charity-mccurdy","10":"tag-charlie-parker","11":"tag-chris-duel","12":"tag-mr-t","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-spurs","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115011048219351489","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}