The new law requiring that phones be stowed away during school is helping some students focus and even re-learn how to interact socially.

Overall, schools should not ban phones. Instead, teachers make students put them in their backpacks or keep them somewhere where they are not going to get distracted by them.

This teen is glad her school bans phones from the classroom but says her schoolwork, social life and job all require a phone. Here’s why she’s worried about it.