Good move. Should be extended to colleges and workspaces too where any sort of concentrated work/discipline is required. Nobody will die.
France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
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Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#12I'd like to be able to call my kid in the event of an emergency. I understand banning general cell phone use during class hours, but it's infringing on civil liberties to force an unrestricted ban
Eh, call the school instead of disturbing all other kids for your self-proclaimed emergency.
You mean demand that teachers do your personal messagers? That is entitlement a bit higher then calling kid during lunch or break - this ban is specifically about lunch and break phone usage.
Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, call the school instead of disturbing all other kids for your self-proclaimed emergency.
You mean demand that teachers do your personal messagers? That is entitlement a bit higher then calling kid during lunch or break - this ban is specifically about lunch and break phone usage.
In an actual emergency? Sure. "Entitlement" is a strange way to frame it. Emergencies should be rare, the school can accommodate them when they occur.
Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#14I'd like to be able to call my kid in the event of an emergency. I understand banning general cell phone use during class hours, but it's infringing on civil liberties to force an unrestricted ban
Come on, is it that hard to understand that :
1/ When the kids are at school, the school take care of them
2/ If your kid has an emergency at school, the school takes care of it (mostly they'll call the emergency service and afterwards call you)
3/ if you have an emergency, a simple call to the school is more than enough to have both the school and you manage it. The people in school are just as good as you to manage your kid in these situations
Trust the school.
Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#15Good move. Should be extended to colleges and workspaces too where any sort of concentrated work/discipline is required. Nobody will die.
Consider this is a ban set by the government.
Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#16Meanwhile, my high school was authorizing students to smoke during recess in the school...
Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#17Shouldn't this be a matter for individual schools or school boards (the article says some already have this in place)?
I like the policy, but as I get older, I wonder why we have so many laws that control so much of what we can and can't do. I agree this one's pretty benign, but it still seems like an excess of authority.
When I was in school, if I distracted another student or played on my calculator, I'd get in trouble. Despite the lack of law banning talking, the school wasn't impotent to enforce discipline.
Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean demand that teachers do your personal messagers? That is entitlement a bit higher then calling kid during lunch or break - this ban is specifically about lunch and break phone usage.
In an actual emergency? Sure. "Entitlement" is a strange way to frame it. Emergencies should be rare, the school can accommodate them when they occur.
"Disturbing all other kids" is strange way to frame phone call during lunch or break too. A bit dramatic since the supposedly disturbed kids were not disturbed from anything.
And there is nothing wrong or disturbing about those even if the message is ordinary "go home alone cant come for you today" due to unexpected meeting or deadline. Or "go from school to grandma we will dinner there today" or "wait for me in school I will take you shopping today" change of plans that happen normally.
Are they super dangerous emergencies? No. Are they practical to be called about? Yes.
Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#19The important thing in the article is that this ban concerns phone usage during breaks and lunch. Phones in classes were already forbidden long time ago.
I think that is a step too far. Imagine they banned books during breaks. That's how far this is.
I get you want to not have them use them during class but that is the general policing class behavior that teachers are supposed to do. Why ban them during breaks when it doesn't hurt their studies?
Re: France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools
#20Shouldn't this be a matter for individual schools or school boards (the article says some already have this in place)? I like the policy, but as I get older, I wonder why we have so many laws that control so much of what we can and can't do. I agree this one's pretty benign, but it still seems like an excess of authority. When I was in school, if I distracted another student or played on my calculator, I'd get in tro…
Today teachers can get suspended if they even set an angry look on the pupils. I guess they hope people will abide the law at least.
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