What the crowd rated

Phones in class: ban them or not?

Governments around the world are deciding whether phones belong in the classroom during the school day. We want to know where you stand.

47%Yes, ban phones all dayQuestion 1

53%Distraction from lessonsQuestion 2

Question by question

Question 1Pick one

Should students be banned from using phones during the school day?

Yes, ban phones all day47%458

Allow them only for lessons35%338

No, leave it to students9%89

Not sure7%69

Other (tell us)2%17

Question 2Pick multiple

Which of these worry you about phones in class?

Voters chose more than one answer, so these shares add up to more than 100%.

Distraction from lessons53%511

Cheating on tests and homework42%409

Cyberbullying and online drama23%224

Too much screen time21%208

Less talking face to face14%138

None of these really worry me4%34

Other (tell us)1%8

Who answered, and how we count itSampling, free-text handling and full methodology971

Verified humans

971

Every ballot is one World ID holder. No bots, no repeat voting, no weighting applied.

Margin at 95%

±3.1 pts

Sampling error for this many ballots. The crowd is self-selected, so this is not a representative panel.

Written-in answers

Summarised into themes by machine, then reviewed. Individual responses are never shown.

Aggregate results from verified voters. Free-text answers are summarised into themes; individual responses are kept private and never shown. A read-only record of what World ID holders expressed in our polls — not VoxPop predictions, and not financial advice.

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