Paddy Gower's piece on his show Paddy Gower Has Issues last night highlighted the violent bullying that is happening in our schools, focussing on a young Napier girl who was bullied so badly she had to leave school.

The 11-year-old was beaten up at her intermediate school in March while a group of students watched, filming the incident rather than stopping the vicious attack.

Auckland University senior research fellow in the faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Dr Sam Marsh, has spent over a decade investigating the effects of screens on teenagers.

She believes a ban on cell phones in schools would be a gift for kids.

Dr Sam Marsh joined Francesca Rudkin.

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