Re: Smart Phone Ban
Originally Posted by
tarantula
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Kids should be permitted to take their phones to school with them, but they should not be permitted to use them during school hours.
agreed - mobile phones have become an almost essential means of kids being able to contact their parents :
1. if they are sick or injured - then they are a means for teachers to contact parents
2. after school they are essential for some kids to contact their parents for transport arrangements or "sleep over" arrangements.
banning phones completely is a withdrawal of modern liberties and also dangerous in an increasingly dangerous world.
I am all in favor of phones not being either used or available for use during school hrs - this would then require a system of safe storage, which I believe is essential in a world of modern communication processes.