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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.
I don't see a problem with this. They shouldn't be diddling around them except in the case of an emergency anyway. People need to wake up, put down their cell phones, and ENGAGE with the world around them. Stop obsessing over Facebook, stop believing every piece of nonsense you read on the internet, and start learning - that is why they are in school in the first place!
The states would have to pass this making it law I don't think schools could ban cellphones.
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.
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 must have spent a lot of time on a cell phone at school.
The states would have to pass this making it law I don't think schools could ban cellphones.
They certainly can and do limit when and where students are allowed to use cellphones. I'm not sure why you think otherwise.
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