England Banning Mobile Phones in Schools
October 2nd, 2023
Via: Daily Mail:
Mobiles are to be banned from classrooms, the Education Secretary will announce on Monday.
Gillian Keegan will order schools to outlaw smartphones during lessons, and also in breaks, in a bid to end disruption and make it easier for pupils to focus.
A government source said new guidance would be issued to schools across England requiring them to take action.
‘Gillian believes that mobile phones pose a serious challenge in terms of distraction, disruptive behaviour, and bullying,’ the insider said. ‘It is one of the biggest issues that children and teachers have to grapple with so she will set out a way forward to empower teachers to ban mobiles from classrooms.’
Some schools already ban the use of mobiles, with pupils required to hand in their phones each morning – or face the punishment of a detention if they are caught using them.
But many others still permit their use, particularly during breaks, despite growing evidence of the damage they cause.
Good news.
Wilton Middle/High School in NH banned cell phones altogether about 10 yrs ago. That lasted maybe 3 days. Kids complained to their parents, the parents complained to the school — anything to keep the kids from whining, gotta keep their ‘babies’ happy — and the ban was lifted.
Cell phones with internet access, incompetent teachers, very lax discipline, texts that don’t teach the straightforward truth, even in math, and lgbtq-whatever to distract, confuse and worry them — a quadruple whammy. It’s a marvel if any kid can withstand these attacks long enough to learn anything useful in real life.
In addition to schooling their kids at home, parents need to be preparing them to survive when they become adults having to live among the mind-boggled products of public/private woke schools and the growing minorities, already adults, who are not interested in education of any kind.
That’s quintuple whammy.