Kids in Texas Are Losing Their Minds Because of a New State Law Prohibiting Any Cell Phone Usage in Schools

School is in full swing again — if you live in a sensible area of the country and not somewhere where school starts in the middle of September like insane people — and the kids in Texas are not having a good time with the state's new law prohibiting any phone usage whatsoever during the school day. It seems some schools have just instructed students to leave their phones in their backpacks while others have implemented pouches that the phones must stay in all day. Either way, nobody is supposed to be accessing them at all.

And these kids are absolutely losing it.

But of course they are. They're addicted. Eight hours without a cell phone and your brain (ideally) occupied with learning shouldn't be that difficult.

I actually agree with these kids that a state law prohibiting cell phone use in school is mildly insane, but that's because it shouldn't have ever had to come to that. If students were only using their phones during lunch or down times in class — like many of them are now claiming — this wouldn't be an issue. But obviously, something needed to be done to test if there's any way to rectify the problems the phones are causing in schools.

The transition is going to be rough for a little while, but I'd be stunned if there is not a noticeable uptick in Texas test scores in the next year or two. Looks like y'all just might have to learn a thing or two at school!