Let’s see how this ban goes for them, like the cigarette one
Well fuck, they’re learning from NSW…
Good. When I was in school, there were no cellphones and kids still did fine. Banning cellphone will mean less distraction to all concerned.
They should introduce cigarette vending machines in schools while they’re at it.
This is just posturing from our new and stupid conservative government.
Schools were already able to ban phones onsite.
when I was a kid we weren’t allowed to wear hats in school.
Great idea. More countries should follow suit
Why are all schools not jumping on board? Great job NZ!
How about emergency calls?
One ok policy hidden among a raft of terrible ones.
Sucks for all the schools who have invested in developing apps and services to help children stay organised and connected. Back to printing out tens of thousands of paper forms each year I guess?
I dislike it when Reddit cheers for policies like these. It’s classic government overreach for the sake of brownie points. Why not let each school ban cellphones themselves if they deem it a problem, instead of the government forcing every school to do so? In fact, that’s probably the current scenario anyway.
Smart move, NZ.
I think most Australia public high school have already done this .nsw just brought it in and I think they were the last
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This is probably a good idea, actually.
Let’s see how this ban goes for them, like the cigarette one
Well fuck, they’re learning from NSW…
Good. When I was in school, there were no cellphones and kids still did fine. Banning cellphone will mean less distraction to all concerned.
They should introduce cigarette vending machines in schools while they’re at it.
This is just posturing from our new and stupid conservative government.
Schools were already able to ban phones onsite.
when I was a kid we weren’t allowed to wear hats in school.
Great idea. More countries should follow suit
Why are all schools not jumping on board? Great job NZ!
How about emergency calls?
One ok policy hidden among a raft of terrible ones.
Sucks for all the schools who have invested in developing apps and services to help children stay organised and connected. Back to printing out tens of thousands of paper forms each year I guess?
I dislike it when Reddit cheers for policies like these. It’s classic government overreach for the sake of brownie points. Why not let each school ban cellphones themselves if they deem it a problem, instead of the government forcing every school to do so? In fact, that’s probably the current scenario anyway.
Smart move, NZ.
I think most Australia public high school have already done this .nsw just brought it in and I think they were the last