Mobile phones should be banned in schools

[arista]

Mobile phones should be banned in schools - Gavin Williamson


Bloody Right
it's an Outright Distraction.


[Phones can act as a “breeding ground” for
cyber-bullying and social media
can damage mental health, he added.
"It’s now time to put the screens away, especially mobile phones,"]


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56663010

[bots]

so the safety that phones bring is worthless is it

[Mitchell]

In the current day and age, it’s important for children to have phones on their commute to and from school imo

[Kate!]

I've had this argument with my sons school several years ago. They took his phone off him and refused to return it till they had spoken to me. I don't think they should have the right to do that in this day and age.

[Ammi]

...not having phones in classrooms etc is fine but if a child was walking to and from school for instance...and there was a safeguarding issue, that child needs to have a form of contact...that’s very important...

[Ammi]

...oh, during the school day...I’m not sure there would be a need to have one during a school day but the school would have to provide secure places if they don’t already...

[arista]

so the safety that phones bring is worthless is it


No as they leave
they take their phones home with them.


Working well, right now
in better schools

[Mitchell]

No as they leave
they take their phones home with them.


Working well, right now
in better schools

Can you imagine the 2,000+ kid queue for their phone at the end of the day?

[arista]

...not having phones in classrooms etc is fine but if a child was walking to and from school for instance...and there was a safeguarding issue, that child needs to have a form of contact...that’s very important...


Yes Makes Great Sense

Total Distraction

[arista]

Can you imagine the 2,000+ kid queue for their phone at the end of the day?


Clever Schools have solved that
kids leave at different times

[Glenn.]

Taking their phones off them won’t stop cyber bullying

[rusticgal]

Perhaps they should give them phone lockers....I know they are a source of communication for safety reasons but they are not a necessity.

[Ammi]

...sadly bullying can and will still happen without the use of mobile phones and those phones offer a feeling of safety as well if in an actual situation of being bullied...and it would be such a complicated thing also...(...is Gavin Williamson going to provide extra income for the schools to staff such a complicated and time consuming system of removing phones from every pupil and returning them each day...)..many children need their phones during school hours for things like insulin injections etc and other medications that are dictated by times of the day and having alarms set...

[Crimson Dynamo]

no reason at all for any kid to have a phone in a school building

get them banned immediately

[hijaxers]

I don't think phones shoud be allowed into classrooms.

[arista]

I don't think phones should be allowed into classrooms.


You Are Most Wise.

[arista]

Taking their phones off them won’t stop cyber bullying


It's not just that
It is a Total Distraction in the Classroom,

[Glenn.]

It's not just that
It is a Total Distraction in the Classroom,

Then as someone else suggested, supply lockers or take the phones away from them whilst they are in the classroom. Banning them from school completely is pointless.

[Livia]

Considering the bullying and abuse that abounds online - one of my nieces lost almost a year of school after being bullied by a bunch of girls online - there is no reason for pupils to have phones at school. If there's a problem at school, staff will contact their parents.

[LukeB]

so the safety that phones bring is worthless is it

Exactly

What if something happens going to and after school and they have no phone for help?

[arista]

Exactly

What if something happens going to and after school and they have no phone for help?


Rubbish
They have a Phone it is returned to them as the leave



Loads of Good Schools are doing this.

[arista]

Then as someone else suggested, supply lockers or take the phones away from them whilst they are in the classroom. Banning them from school completely is pointless.


Yes some are doing that.

They Are Banned from Classrooms

[Livia]

Exactly

What if something happens going to and after school and they have no phone for help?

In that case I imagine the same thing would happened now that would have happened more than fifteen or so years ago, when no one had a phone.

[Marsh.]

I don't think it's at all realistic to have a total ban on phones in schools. Not least because everything is online nowadays, kids don't need them to get on the internet and any bullying would not be confined to school times if being done online. Naive to think it would.

However, schools should be at a stage where procedures are in place to ensure phones have minimal impact on the actual lessons. Phone lockers etc.

[joeysteele]

Surely it can be procedure for during lessons ALL mobile phones are switched off.
Visibly so on desks whatever.

How hard can that be?.

No need then to gather them up or have a queue and time wasted getting them back.

[Amy Jade]

They could probably have a rule that the phone has to be turned off unless a person had good reason but taking away a phone all together is not realistic.

Anyone support this, answer me this - your child goes to school and their phone is either taken off of them or left at home. After school your child gets into an accident or is followed home and said phone could have been their only means of alerting help how would you feel if the worst happened?

[Amy Jade]

Also weren't the first alerts that school shootings were going on from students in class? Let the killer carry on shooting until a teacher can get to an outside line?

[bots]

all it requires is a semblance of control in the classroom ... don't use your phone. There are plenty of other things kids could do that would be considered disruptive but they don't do it because the teacher has control, why should using phones be any different

[Niamh.]

In my sons school they have to keep their phones in their lockers during school time works well i think

[Tom4784]

A boomer-ish point of view.

Phones are too useful to ban them in schools at this point, they should be integrated in the teaching, if anything.

Banning phones in school won't stop cyberbullying or the negative effects of social media, it's foolish to think that it would.

[Cal.]

They should be integrated into teaching I agree Dezzy.

[Crimson Dynamo]

In my sons school they have to keep their phones in their lockers during school time works well i think

a sensible idea

[user104658]

My daughters school used to allow kids who walked to/from school themselves to take their phones and leave them at the office through the day. After COVID they said that was too risky, and that they’d just have to not bring phones at all, because they couldn’t compromise on the “no phones in class” rule. So now my daughter takes her phone in an inside zip pocket in her bag and keeps it on silent - because **** their rules. :shrug:

[Jessica.]

I graduated 12 years ago and phones were already frowned upon, even at lunch time, but they're a part of daily life and a lot of kids depend on them for many reasons. Also a lot of young people who suffer from mental health issues or are neglected and abused turn to technology as a coping mechanism, I did that and I know of kids right now who do it. They should teach time management and appropriate technology use. Kids all have access to an old phone at home that nobody is using, they'll turn that in and continue with their phones throughout the day as normal.

[Dogeatdog]

I don’t think that they should be banned in schools since like others have mentioned, they provide some security and safety when travelling to and from school.

I agree that they can be a distraction in classrooms but surely they can implement a system where they have to leave them face down on there desks on silent mode whilst lessons are taking place or have lockers to store them and then returned at the end of lesson maybe.

[Scarlett.]

I swear they've been saying something to this effect for like 20+ years