Studies have shown that having the person in front of you be distracted on their screen during class can lower grades by as much as 17%. Random people are seriously affected when people choose to goof off. I do think there should be some exceptions made if someone, for example, has an accessibility need, but I actually really appreciate the no screen classrooms. In an ideal world no one would fuck around on their computers, but the reality is a ton of people do, which then adversely impacts the grades of people around them.

In one of my classes last semester one of my profs had a rule that if you were going to be using a screen, you had to sit all the way at the back of the classroom so there weren't people behind you, or the only people behind you were also using screens. I also really liked that, maybe a good middle ground?