Mary Frances Ruskell

Jan 29, 2025 | cnn.com | Katia Hetter |Mary Frances Ruskell

Editor’s note: Mary Frances Ruskell is a senior at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School in Columbia, South Carolina. My friend Sammy turned around at his desk and grinned at me. He held out his phone and waved it in front of my face, the universal sign for “Look at this!” It was a video of a capybara in a swimming pool, seemingly treading water like a human does, feet down and arms circling.

Oct 8, 2024 | msn.com | Mary Frances Ruskell

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Oct 8, 2024 | albanyherald.com | Mary Frances Ruskell

(CNN) — When my friends and I walked into homeroom on the first day of school this year, my teacher told all of us to put our phones in a black plastic box on an old desk by the classroom door. Handing over our phones during class is an official school policy, and my teachers always make this announcement at the beginning of the school year. But teachers would usually forget about the box by third period on the first day, never to be mentioned again by the second day of school.

Oct 8, 2024 | cnn.com | Faye Chiu |Mary Frances Ruskell

WATCH: Protect kids from phones' mental health impact, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt says 07:03 - Source: CNN Editor’s Note: Mary Frances Ruskell is a senior at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School in Columbia, South Carolina. CNN  —  When my friends and I walked into homeroom on the first day of school this year, my teacher told all of us to put our phones in a black plastic box on an old desk by the classroom door.