I’m all in favour of the decision to go phone-free, but the idea of an academy chain making this kind of decision without any public accountability is democratically unacceptable. In the old days, elected county council local education authorities made these decisions, and they could be held accountable for it. Privatisation (which is what the academy system is, when you get down to it) just gives power without responsibility.
Phones are sometimes used in lessons whether it’s independent research or something like Kahoot quizzes so this imposes limitations on teachers. It stops parents being able to contact kids (of course, most kids will keep their phones in their bags rather than leave them at home but still this is technically “against the rules”). It does fuck all to stop bullying because people will still bully in real life, and then just do some cyberbullying after school.
As for the social media addiction? Well don’t you think dealing with that should start at home? It should be up to the parents to control their kids’ use of social media. Preventing social media addicts from accessing it during school will just mean they do so at home, have the same anxieties and spend too much time on it at home (and this can still affect school when it comes to homework), at the expense of the majority of young people who aren’t addicts or suffering from anxiety, contrary to what the stereotypes say.
Firstly I don’t see why they can’t just have it so they can’t use their phone during school and if caught doing so without permission said phone would be taken away and returned at the end of the day this was how my school did it and worked pretty well.
The solution provided here is stupid if each year has an minimum of 100 students and school has five year (7-11) groups like most secondary schools that would mean 500 students all trying to collect their phones at the end of the day at once.also lets me honest said phones would likely be stored in the schools office or reception so what stopping an determined robber from holding the receptionist at knife point the get phones for a very easy score because the police would fuck all so someone brazen enough Likely will do this.
Blame those parents who couldn’t handle their children’s addiction to their phones, then also blame those children who became violent, aggressive, sneaky, cheeky, etc, etc., when it came to being forced to not use their phone in class, put it away, or have it confiscated.
They ruined it for everyone else, and as a parent of five, I don’t blame the schools for taking this stance. It’s not the schools’ responsibility to handle their children’s phone usage during class time.
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I’m all in favour of the decision to go phone-free, but the idea of an academy chain making this kind of decision without any public accountability is democratically unacceptable. In the old days, elected county council local education authorities made these decisions, and they could be held accountable for it. Privatisation (which is what the academy system is, when you get down to it) just gives power without responsibility.
Phones are sometimes used in lessons whether it’s independent research or something like Kahoot quizzes so this imposes limitations on teachers. It stops parents being able to contact kids (of course, most kids will keep their phones in their bags rather than leave them at home but still this is technically “against the rules”). It does fuck all to stop bullying because people will still bully in real life, and then just do some cyberbullying after school.
As for the social media addiction? Well don’t you think dealing with that should start at home? It should be up to the parents to control their kids’ use of social media. Preventing social media addicts from accessing it during school will just mean they do so at home, have the same anxieties and spend too much time on it at home (and this can still affect school when it comes to homework), at the expense of the majority of young people who aren’t addicts or suffering from anxiety, contrary to what the stereotypes say.
Firstly I don’t see why they can’t just have it so they can’t use their phone during school and if caught doing so without permission said phone would be taken away and returned at the end of the day this was how my school did it and worked pretty well.
The solution provided here is stupid if each year has an minimum of 100 students and school has five year (7-11) groups like most secondary schools that would mean 500 students all trying to collect their phones at the end of the day at once.also lets me honest said phones would likely be stored in the schools office or reception so what stopping an determined robber from holding the receptionist at knife point the get phones for a very easy score because the police would fuck all so someone brazen enough Likely will do this.
Blame those parents who couldn’t handle their children’s addiction to their phones, then also blame those children who became violent, aggressive, sneaky, cheeky, etc, etc., when it came to being forced to not use their phone in class, put it away, or have it confiscated.
They ruined it for everyone else, and as a parent of five, I don’t blame the schools for taking this stance. It’s not the schools’ responsibility to handle their children’s phone usage during class time.