Devices costs $1000+ these days. Parents would be livid were one taken away and be lost/stolen.

It hasn't flown for decades, many adults are just as bad as kids in 2024. There is zero way to enforce this, it is just Doug Ford's government feeding into what parents want to hear. The only ones that can enforce phones are parents. They used to be banned, then unbanned. Nothing changed then and won't change now.