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Have they already tried to ban phones in schools?

• logifail 4y ago
  > Have they already tried to ban phones in schools? My eldest is 12 and in his school they are not allowed to use their phones during school time, and I fully support this. Due to some genius government policy here involving "digital classrooms", every child in his year has been handed an iPad to use during lessons. Guess what? Kids end up watching junk on YouTube during lessons, then get their devices confiscated. I wonder if the policy wonks in government have met (m)any 12 year olds...
• germinalphrase 4y ago
  No. I teach at the high school level in a suburb of Minneapolis. Staff asked for a formal response from administration about banning phones and were were told, directly and unequivocally, that we cannot do so, and while they support teacher initiative to restrict phone use in class, if a teacher should take a phone off a student they are personally and financially responsible for the device. I’m supposed to assume thousands of dollars of personal liability each day on my 45k salary? Fat chance. As you expect, phone use is a constant problem. Parents are very often no more willing to restrict phone use when it’s brought to their attention. It’s kind of a shit show.