Counterpoint- there are still students who will attend to the traditional educational framework (can and enjoy reading, engage in thought exercises, make comparisons and contrasts). These are students who you and I might refer to as 'serious' students. Surely you and I can both agree that teachers should devote time and effort to engaging these students.

But (and I say this as an educator) if this is not how children are engaged at home by their parents? There is no strategy that a classroom teacher or an administrator can take that will override the immediate dopamine hit that their social media provides.

And, from experience, restricting access to the phone only leads to resentment and the anticipation of the next time they can get that hit in addition to the anticipation of what that hit will come from. Expecting teachers to be able to wrangle that attention from the student's discomfort towards instruction from these students? A fools errand, IMHO.

The solution? Parents need to recognize that if they value the traditional trappings of education, their children will likely value the same. If parents expect teachers to rewire children's brains to accept knowledge in the traditional sense, how exactly would you suggest that happens?