jonathan hite joins us now. dr. jonathan, it's so great to have you on.' school doesn't allow phones. i'm surprised this isn't happening more across the country. it conflicts with studying and learning. >> one thing we know is that test scores in the united states were rising from the 1970s to about 2012 and then they started dropping. it wasn't caused by covid. they started dropping after 2012. the way you can understand it, imagine older people if you remember being in high school in the 1980s or '90s, imagine if they said you can bring your television into class, you can bring your vcr, talky talky, guitar, put it on your desk or whatever. that's what we've done. the smartphone has all these thinks and more so of course kids aren't paying attention in class. the tragic thing is, they're not paying attention to each other between classes or lunch. they're on their phones most of the time. >> i talked to a principal the other day of a school that banned smartphones in school and what struck him the most was remembering back to i guess about 20122, 2012,

jonathan hite who is a researcher also has been a great deal of work about the importance so on reasonable so let's do that. on homeschooling front there are very few cases of horrific abuse of children who ostensibly being homeschooled. the two things on that i want appointed. the first what is all of those cases i'm aware of, cps knew about this family. there were attempts in michigan recently, illinois and west virginia to pass laws basically putting further restrictions on homeschooling because of these. in all three of those high-profile cases cps knew about the families. it had cleared the family for their supposed to be checking in and cbs dropped the ball. that's the first important thing. why did cps got the ball? because of all been tae bo, 4.49 cases are coming in. cps workers are chasing people instead of following up west virginia cases particularly horrific instead of following up on the family that they knew about. we have limited resources, limited workers. let's prioritize and a talk with some of those getting rid of anonymous reporting. the second point though is i want t

jonathan hite who is a researcher also has been a great deal of work about the importance so on reasonableo let's do that. on homeschooling front there are very few cases of horrific abuse of children who ostensibly being homeschooled. the two things on that i want appointed. the first what is all of those cases i'm aware of, cps knew about this family. there were attempts in michigan recently, illinois and west virginia to pass laws basically putting further restrictions on homeschooling because of these. in all three of those high-profile cases cps knew about the families. it had cleared the family for their supposed to be checking in and cbs dropped the ball. that's the first important thing. why did cps got the ball? because of all been tae bo, 4.49 cases are coming in. cps workers are chasing people instead of following up west virginia cases particularly horrific instead of following up on the family that they knew about. we have limited resources, limited workers. let's prioritize and a talk with some of those getting rid of anonymous reporting. the second point though is i want to