AHS speaker urges students to break phone addiction

Switching to a ‘dumb phone’ can improve grades

  • Aurora High School Health and Wellness Day speaker Suzie Fogarty holds up her iPhone to make a point during her keynote address to high school students last Wednesday. Fogarty reported that today’s high school students spend an average of 7-1/2 hours a day looking at screens, and that’s on top of the time computers are used for study.
    Aurora High School Health and Wellness Day speaker Suzie Fogarty holds up her iPhone to make a point during her keynote address to high school students last Wednesday. Fogarty reported that today’s high school students spend an average of 7-1/2 hours a day looking at screens, and that’s on top of the time computers are used for study.

    If Nebraska legislators were looking for evidence to support LB 140 which seeks to put a statewide ban on cell phones in school, they wouldn’t need to look much further than the presentation made to Aurora High School students during last Wednesday’s Health and Wellness Day. Keynote speaker Suzie Fogarty kept the attention of several hundred students in grades 9-12 for an hour Feb. 26 with he…