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Alberta just announced that this is happening starting in the fall: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-classroom-cell-phones-1.7237567 https://www.

Alberta just announced that this is happening starting in the fall: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-classroom-cell-phones-1.7237567 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-classroom-cel...

swader999 2y ago
It's already been a rule in most schools anyway. This just formalizes it.
- criddell 2y ago
  My kids’ high school required kids to have a phone. They strongly encouraged the kids use the calendar to track assignments, they used the camera for capturing homework instructions from a white board, they sometimes made movies for class assignments, and they had some kind of Twitter-like app for the teachers to broadcast to the kids and the kids to contact teachers (this didn’t seem to be used often). They also used the browser a lot for looking stuff up. When I went to the fall parent-teacher orientation night and they explained all this, it didn’t sound like phone use was a huge problem, but maybe they just didn’t want to talk about the problems. I did like that they had structure around phone use that included appropriate and inappropriate uses of the phone. I totally get banning phones with young kids, but high schoolers should be treated more like adults as they progress through the grades. Some of the kids were entering the workforce or joining the military after their senior year. They should be ready for that.
  - arp242 2y ago
    > I totally get banning phones with young kids, but high schoolers should be treated more like adults as they progress through the grades. Some of the kids were entering the workforce or joining the military after their senior year. They should be ready for that. High school is from the age of 13 to 18; big difference between those two.
    - criddell 2y ago
      Definitely. That’s why I talked about a progression. It makes no sense for 13 year olds having the same phone rules as 18 year olds.
morkalork 2y ago
Québec has done it too: https://globalnews.ca/news/9914211/quebec-schools-cellphone-ban/ https://globalnews.ca/news/9914211/quebec-schools-cellphone-...
kalupa 2y ago
Starts July 1 in BC!

swader999 2y ago

It's already been a rule in most schools anyway. This just formalizes it.

criddell 2y ago
My kids’ high school required kids to have a phone. They strongly encouraged the kids use the calendar to track assignments, they used the camera for capturing homework instructions from a white board, they sometimes made movies for class assignments, and they had some kind of Twitter-like app for the teachers to broadcast to the kids and the kids to contact teachers (this didn’t seem to be used often). They also used the browser a lot for looking stuff up. When I went to the fall parent-teacher orientation night and they explained all this, it didn’t sound like phone use was a huge problem, but maybe they just didn’t want to talk about the problems. I did like that they had structure around phone use that included appropriate and inappropriate uses of the phone. I totally get banning phones with young kids, but high schoolers should be treated more like adults as they progress through the grades. Some of the kids were entering the workforce or joining the military after their senior year. They should be ready for that.
- arp242 2y ago
  > I totally get banning phones with young kids, but high schoolers should be treated more like adults as they progress through the grades. Some of the kids were entering the workforce or joining the military after their senior year. They should be ready for that. High school is from the age of 13 to 18; big difference between those two.
  - criddell 2y ago
    Definitely. That’s why I talked about a progression. It makes no sense for 13 year olds having the same phone rules as 18 year olds.

morkalork 2y ago

Québec has done it too: https://globalnews.ca/news/9914211/quebec-schools-cellphone-ban/ https://globalnews.ca/news/9914211/quebec-schools-cellphone-...

kalupa 2y ago

Starts July 1 in BC!