STAT+: Across the U.S., homegrown experiments aim to save kids from their phones
Teenagers quietly enduring online abuse, using their phones all night without their parents’ knowledge, or trapped in a cycle of deleting and redownloading social media.
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- MILWAUKEE — Kat Zilka sat on the floor of her living room, beside a glowing Christmas tree and a pile of essays, and felt like weeping.
- “The things they were writing were deeply disturbing,” she said.
Their words made real what Zilka had been observing for years — how the light in students’ eyes was dimmer, especially since Covid — and revealed the astonishing magnitude of the problem.
It was late in 2022, and she had asked her 12th grade digital journalism students to reflect on their relationships to devices.
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