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France's education chief says that when students go back to school next fall, all mobile phone use will be banned in schools for students roughly 15 and younger.
"These days the children don't play at break time anymore; they are just all in front of their smartphones, and from an educational point of view, that's a problem," Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said, according to The Telegraph.
"We are working on this issue, and it can take different forms," Blanquer said. "You may need a mobile phone, for example for educational purposes, for emergency situations" so perhaps the phones can be confined to lockers. "The students are addicted to their phone, it's a real plague," Xavier Bessière, teacher of maritime law at a vocational school toldLe Monde. "We close our eyes, that's for sure, because we cannot fight. We would be the gendarme "police" all the time."
Sadly this will never happen here in the states kids go to school to learn not to text and keep up on social media sites. I can parents standing behind their kids when they complain that the schools banned cellphone use.
The funny part is if it were suggested in America, the red states would be opposed to it on principle because "ain't no gubermint gonna tell us what to do," ironically resulting in even lower educational performance as their kids spend all day fiddling with their cellphones.
You're quite the scholar in deciding for everyone what people in a "red" state would do. I'm certain you've spent years researching this.
France's education chief says that when students go back to school next fall, all mobile phone use will be banned in schools for students roughly 15 and younger.
"These days the children don't play at break time anymore; they are just all in front of their smartphones, and from an educational point of view, that's a problem," Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer said, according to The Telegraph.
"We are working on this issue, and it can take different forms," Blanquer said. "You may need a mobile phone, for example for educational purposes, for emergency situations" so perhaps the phones can be confined to lockers. "The students are addicted to their phone, it's a real plague," Xavier Bessière, teacher of maritime law at a vocational school toldLe Monde. "We close our eyes, that's for sure, because we cannot fight. We would be the gendarme "police" all the time."
Sadly this will never happen here in the states kids go to school to learn not to text and keep up on social media sites. I can parents standing behind their kids when they complain that the schools banned cellphone use.
What kids do on their BREAK TIME is their business, so there shouldn't be an "educational point of view" to that.
As far as usage in class, hell no. That shouldn't be allowed today, any more than it was when I was a kid. Wait....okay.....we weren't allowed to listen to transistor radios in class when I was a kid.
What kids do on their BREAK TIME is their business, so there shouldn't be an "educational point of view" to that.
As far as usage in class, hell no. That shouldn't be allowed today, any more than it was when I was a kid. Wait....okay.....we weren't allowed to listen to transistor radios in class when I was a kid.
Yeah, I think this law would pertain to break time.
When I was in school, mobile phones were banned during class. Teachers wouldn't hesitate to confiscate any phones they saw out.
Cellphones were illegal to have in schools in Illinois from the 1980s to 2002. In the wake of September 11th, they decided to repeal the law and let the individual school districts decide. The law had its origins with pagers.
It should be up to the schools! Yes!
And maybe, in theory, it is up to the principal in some areas. But there appears to be not one single public school principal in America who understands the issue. They nibble around the edges of problems, make specific rules for specific cases but always back down when someone - anyone! - is unhappy.
Public education is a wreck.
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