Should Schools Ban Mobile Phones?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/french-schools-ban-mobile-phones-as-parents-say-the-uk-should-be-next-11489948

[ToraToraTora]

try reading what I wrote, I asked and she gave me a fiver after she gave me all the change back.

[ummmm]

No...they shouldn't be banned. They should be turned off during class though.

[SparklyKid]

I totally get it TTT. A lot of younger people on tills seem totally confused when you say, do want the £1.25, say , for a £6.25 purchase paying with a tenner.

[kvalidir]

The problem isn't phones, the problem is kids not understanding and respecting people enough not to be messing about with them in the first place when they should be paying attention. Don't ban phones, get parents and teachers to do their job and instil some manners and respect into their kids, no-one wants a dopey, drippy kid who can't handle themselves and stay off their device for five minutes, so do something about it.

[ToraToraTora]

spath; "But do you think if mobile phones were banned in school that wouldn't have happened? Are the two things in any way related?" - no I was responding to your claim above that learning anything is pointless because computers/robots will do everything for us. In your world education is unnecessary my example was given to illustrate that these people are among us.

[anneasquith]

In the classroom definitely .

[Baldric]

They certainly are!

[Baldric]

That ^^^ was @ 11:34

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// My son is in his early 30's, spath, and he neither took his mobile 'phone to school ///

Where mobiles in popular use back then?

[jackthehat]

AOG - He got a mobile 'phone for his 13th birthday.
The things now known as Smartphones weren't in existence then but both the 'phones and the teenagers were still quite capable of making nuisances of themselves.

[AuntLydia]

Banned from Primary Schools. Banned from classroom use in years 7 -11. Sixth Formers should be allowed them and use them responsibly. In my sons senior school they were allowed to take them into school but had to leave them in the office. Subsequently many chose not to take them as did not want them left in the office all day. There were times when I really appreciated he had a phone, for example when the school bus broke down ( we are very rural) and when school ended early because of weather warnings. Mobile phones are not all bad.

[SparklyKid]

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"my example was given to illustrate that these people are among us."

There will always be some thick ones and some really smart ones in every generation. It's just the thick ones are louder than the rest...

11:34 Tue 04th Sep 2018




Never a truer word,lol.

[Patsy33]

Perhaps kids should be made to have a cheap basic phone for emergencies only. Also have them turned off during lessons.