Pamela Paul has an interesting column today about the ways in which cell phones and social media are bad for kids. This is a topic I wrote about earlier this week. I won’t rehash all of again but there is increasing evidence that social media is not only bad for kids mental health but also for their ability to perform well in school. Simply put, phones are distraction devices and kids don’t learn math (or other subjects) as well when they are constantly being distracted.
What Paul has written about today is the racial aspect of this problem. Because it turns out that the problems with students and cell phones are not evenly distributed. Hispanic and black students spend significantly more time on average looking at their phones than white and Asian students and as already discussed this is bad news.
According to a new study by Pew, Black and Hispanic teenagers ages 13 to 17…
