If cell phones are banned in classrooms - will the students be able to handle the withdrawal they will go through?

By Pepper Parr

April 29th, 2026

BURLINGTON, ON’

Ramp up the access to psychological services for High School students.

The province is considering banning students from looking at a social media when they are in schools.

Those students who were never able to discipline their use of being on their cell phone for much more than five minutes will be going into withdrawal.

Parents should take some responsibility for this, but they too are addicted to their cell phones.

I’ll call this one – you call that one.

Students have forgotten how to have conversations.

Minister of Education Paul Calandra says the province will be working closely with the federal government on a social media ban for kids under a certain age.

He also says he is considering implementing an “outright ban” of cellphones on school properties, with some medical exemptions.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew’s government recently announced that it plans to ban children from using social media accounts and artificial intelligence chatbots, starting in classrooms.

Federal Culture Minister Marc Miller has said the government is seriously considering a law enforcing age limits on social media use, as Australia has done.

This is what a generation of parents has let happen to their children.