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Speaker 1: A doctor's desk with a difference. Today, rather than looking

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Speaker 1: at recent scientific research, We're going to have a look

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Speaker 1: at a poll that is analyzing shocking new data trends

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Speaker 1: since the mobile phone ban came in around about a

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Speaker 1: year ago. Today, welcome to the Happy Families Podcast, Real

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Speaker 1: parenting solutions every day on Australia's most downloaded parenting podcast.

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Speaker 1: We are Justin and Kylie Coulson. Kylie, your initial thoughts

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Speaker 1: when the phone ban came in? Were you like in schools?

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Speaker 1: Were you for it? Were you against it? What were

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Speaker 1: you hearing? What was the general vibe?

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Speaker 2: Totally for it, but I didn't hold much hope that

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Speaker 2: it would make a huge difference.

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Speaker 1: So Grace Grace was the Education minister in Queensland when

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Speaker 1: Rebecca Sparrow, myself, Madonna King and a bunch of others

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Speaker 1: wrote an open letter and said, you said that you've

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Speaker 1: done some community consultation and we're not going to ban

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Speaker 1: phones in schools. You haven't consulted and you need to

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Speaker 1: ban them. And so we really put some pressure on,

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Speaker 1: got a lot of people behind it and there was

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Speaker 1: a backflip. There was a turnaround and phones were banned.

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Speaker 1: Let me share this with you. This is from a

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Speaker 1: news article that appeared mid feb I'm a little bit

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Speaker 1: behind the times here because there's been so much else

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Speaker 1: needs to be emphasized. This is from news dot com

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Speaker 1: dot IU. Students across the country less distracted since mobile

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Speaker 1: phones were banned in classrooms, new research shows. A survey

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Speaker 1: from the New South Wales Department of Education revealed eighty

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Speaker 1: seven percent of students were less distracted in the classroom

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Speaker 1: since mobile phones were banned a year ago. There's more.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know you want to say something, but

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Speaker 1: there's more. The study, which surveyed the thousand public school principles,

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Speaker 1: showed eighty one percent of students have seen improved learning.

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Speaker 1: And the last thing, I know, you're on the edge

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Speaker 1: of your seat. I love doing this. I'm I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 1: Last thing, I've got to highlight this because this is big.

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Speaker 1: Out of South Australia, there's been a sixty three percent

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Speaker 1: decline in critical incidents involving social media and a fifty

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Speaker 1: Education of South Australia's survey data. Okay, I've said everything

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Speaker 1: I needed to say, Are you sure? Yeah, yeah, what

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Speaker 2: Tho's just they're massive numbers, right, massive numbers. We're not

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Speaker 2: talking about, you know, a handful of percentages here. This

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Speaker 2: is nearly one hundred percent. Really like eighty seven percent. Legit,

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Speaker 2: that's huge. So I predicted that this would happen. I

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Speaker 2: need to emphasize this does not mean that we are

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Speaker 2: at the end of school challenges. No. Well, in recent

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Speaker 2: weeks we've been dealing with some pretty significant challenges that

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Speaker 2: still having a humongous impact.

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Speaker 1: Right, kids are still doing the wrong thing on screens,

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Speaker 1: and they're also doing the wrong things on phones at home,

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Speaker 1: school buses, and because the phones aren't banned except during school.

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Speaker 1: So it's not a panacea. It doesn't fix everything. But

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Speaker 1: no one ever promised that it would. This initial data, though,

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Speaker 1: is really promising demonstrating that it was the right call.

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Speaker 2: It was the right call. But for me, I feel

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Speaker 2: like as a parent, what it should actually suggest and

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Speaker 2: need to delay, delay, delay in giving our children access

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to make an even more shocking and

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Speaker 1: But what I'm consistently saying is kids don't need mobile

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Speaker 2: In their friendships. It like just it's astounding.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that there's any strong argument that you

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Speaker 2: When you think about the challenges that teachers, principles, and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it does, I mean not enough. There's still more

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Speaker 1: I guess the take home messages, the standout ideas that

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Speaker 1: Came in around about I don't know, six or eight

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Speaker 2: So can I ask you a question, how reliable are

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Speaker 1: As anybody there as good as any data that you

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Speaker 2: No, not at all, Not at all. I guess the

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Speaker 2: concern is, from time to time we have these numbers

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. Ultimately, we know that since schools

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Speaker 1: And similarly with vapes, there's an improvement here. It's not

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