several years ago, The Threat came to my child's high school. They were in lockdown. Hiding in classrooms. Listening for every sound in the hallway. Not only was I terrified, but my 16 year old child was, too. She was smart enough to not phone, so she texted me. She turned the volume and vibrate functions off, so when I texted back, there would be no sound. I can't tell you how much it meant that I was able to be there for my daughter. I was able to listen to her. Reassure her. Tell her I Love her. I was shaking every time I sent a text, wondering if I would get an answer. Was the last text she's sent be the last one I'd ever get? Until I received the next text. And then the fear began again. about 5 years before this happened, I was on the school's Parent Advisory Council. I had brought up the topic of banning cell phones, having student's leave cell phones on the teacher's desk, or perhaps using a blocking device during class time. I am grateful that it wasn't followed through with.
There’s always access to a phone at school through the office if and when necessary and mobile phones during school hours are simply surplus to requirements. Before and after school hours should be a decision left to the parents or guardians of each child.
I never had access to a phone during school, I had a chronic illness amongst other struggles and not being able to have a text from my Mum or update her on how I was feeling really badly affected me and increased my absence from school
as a former art/photography student, phones are needed in school to send photos to emails, allowing people to print them off and stick them onto artist boards (idk if that was a my school thing but ik its very much a real thing) not to mention, the best schools globally allow mobile phones but with limits. not a ban. removing them entirely from the education system is a massive step back and i'm sincerely disappointed that fully grown adults are back at pointing at issues completely irrelevant to mobile phone usage and going "phone bad". if you take a phone off of a child, they wont focus, rather they will zone out or doodle. trust me, i've been there. other people have been there. how about instead, we have more captivating teaching rather than printing pretty little black and white images and giving them to kids to learn? hottake, but that education system isnt educational in the slightest. i feel as if this should be up to people who were RECENTLY educated so they could truly see and judge the state of the british school system right now. why are we banning it during break though? that is in no way hindering education or bullying. i feel as if the government are just on a power trip at this point. watch as education crashes... thank god i don't have to deal with that bullshit. i sincerely apologize on the behalf of these buffoons thinking this will help. keep in mind, i am graduated + when i was at school i only used my phone for school related matters or checking the time since schools cant afford clocks for some reason. no bias, just pure disappointment. you heard of that 14 year old dying in the crash? imagine being involved in a crash and being unable to text your parents that you love them while you die because some petty adults thought "unga bunga phone bad no point of bringing a phone to school"
Absolute rubbish . Phones have only became a thing over the last 15 or so years . None of these “ problems “ you bring up were issues prior to phones being so common. Kids are in school to learn not to play on their phones . If a parent needs to contact their child then phone the school office like the generation before has to do
@richiebhoy1888 I agree phones should be used in schools as long as they don't go on them in lessons. Only for research. At break they should be allowed them. There is still plenty of kids messing around and playing with their phones. It's not like a zombie land.
I think phones should be allowed as it helps me with my education and if i am dping my gcse coursework i cant work without my phone as some things are blocked or dont work on the school computers. So if they ban then then my gcses are fucked. Also break and lunch at my school barely anyone is on there phones anyway there all talking or eating.
Teacher opinion here, from an actual teacher, in Texas, America: Phones provide constant low level distraction for most students. Most lessons do NOT require the usage of a cellphone. The district issued laptop is the main educational technology platform They are supposed to be taught to use their LAPTOPS to enrich their education. If you take their phones away, they will STILL distract themselves with their laptops. The battle is over constant distraction from education. All the adults want is for students to exist in a distraction free environment. Distraction Free Environment. A social compromise, within an educational building, would go along the lines of this: 1. In a classroom, cellphones are forbidden, UNLESS ITS NEEDED FOR THE LESSON. 2. Cellphones are allowed during lunch, and MAYBE during transition. Teaching can't happen if students are distracted. It doesn't matter how engaging the teacher is, if the student is sitting there texting their peers or scrolling through social media. Also, cell phones in general are eroding the focus of students. They can't focus for any precious length of time because they're conditioned by their cellphones to engage in constant dopamine every couple of minutes.
I've been teaching teenagers for 15 years. The distraction of their phone is just too tempting. Even outside of lessons, they won't socialise face to face, and that's not good for them.
@@aa-fw2pw my granddad (30+ years worth of teaching teenagers) says its a waste of the government time because the education methods itself is boring and just worksheets. as for the out-of-lessons... it really depends on the school and/or teachers. i never saw people using their phones out of lessons and i only graduated in 2020. now, riddle me this: if the school/teachers were captivating with how they teach, would children be interested in the lesson, or would they be on their phone? if this continues, they will go back to doodling. then what? take away their pens? pencils? paper?
The ban is to stop the videos of outrageou teachers behavior being videoed and put on social media. Its a safety feature. If your banning phones all lessons should be recorded to prevent the teachers getting away with certain comments or behaviour
I think smart phones should be banned full stop. Bring back the dealer Nokia, cancel talentless nobodies from uploading witty videos of themselves in KFC and getting paid millions for their time, keep work or web browsing strictly for laptops that are plugged into a wall and therefore cannot be removed from a building, and for fuck$ sake, destroy anything that plays out loud in public, on buses or trains, or anywhere that makes me feel homicidal towards the disrespectful, ignorant, entitled culprits.
Never mind the phones. I think the real question is: should we have schools? China uses education pods, which are 84% more efficient than standard learning. All that is required is that the learner be encased for up to 12 years and a small device be implanted in their brain.
I’m American. I say that because we probably have a different mindset. When my youngest was 15 or 16 a suspected shooter came to his school. I got a text from him that said “Mommy, I’m scared” he had not called me mommy for 10 years until then. The only thing that kept us both somewhat calm was being in constant contact by text. I was able to calmly explain who and what the swat team was. If I had not been in contact with him continuously I would have tried to get into the school and save my baby myself.
I agree with the ban. I can’t believe parents are forced to give in the secondary schools as the school request is to. But I found this very hard to work on our children. If they want to give online lessons; they should provide a laptop or iPad and remove it as soon as the lesson finished. We parents should be able to remove phones from our kids. I think should be completely banned from school. Kindly do it our PM.
several years ago, The Threat came to my child's high school.
They were in lockdown. Hiding in classrooms. Listening for every sound in the hallway.
Not only was I terrified, but my 16 year old child was, too.
She was smart enough to not phone, so she texted me. She turned the volume and vibrate functions off, so when I texted back, there would be no sound. I can't tell you how much it meant that I was able to be there for my daughter. I was able to listen to her. Reassure her. Tell her I Love her.
I was shaking every time I sent a text, wondering if I would get an answer. Was the last text she's sent be the last one I'd ever get? Until I received the next text. And then the fear began again.
about 5 years before this happened, I was on the school's Parent Advisory Council.
I had brought up the topic of banning cell phones, having student's leave cell phones on the teacher's desk, or perhaps using a blocking device during class time.
I am grateful that it wasn't followed through with.
Imagine banning phones and laptops till the weekend
Colleen is a bully, the way she treated Kim Woodburn on loose women was horrible.
There’s always access to a phone at school through the office if and when necessary and mobile phones during school hours are simply surplus to requirements. Before and after school hours should be a decision left to the parents or guardians of each child.
I never had access to a phone during school, I had a chronic illness amongst other struggles and not being able to have a text from my Mum or update her on how I was feeling really badly affected me and increased my absence from school
as a former art/photography student, phones are needed in school to send photos to emails, allowing people to print them off and stick them onto artist boards (idk if that was a my school thing but ik its very much a real thing)
not to mention, the best schools globally allow mobile phones but with limits. not a ban. removing them entirely from the education system is a massive step back and i'm sincerely disappointed that fully grown adults are back at pointing at issues completely irrelevant to mobile phone usage and going "phone bad".
if you take a phone off of a child, they wont focus, rather they will zone out or doodle. trust me, i've been there. other people have been there.
how about instead, we have more captivating teaching rather than printing pretty little black and white images and giving them to kids to learn? hottake, but that education system isnt educational in the slightest.
i feel as if this should be up to people who were RECENTLY educated so they could truly see and judge the state of the british school system right now.
why are we banning it during break though? that is in no way hindering education or bullying. i feel as if the government are just on a power trip at this point.
watch as education crashes... thank god i don't have to deal with that bullshit. i sincerely apologize on the behalf of these buffoons thinking this will help.
keep in mind, i am graduated + when i was at school i only used my phone for school related matters or checking the time since schools cant afford clocks for some reason. no bias, just pure disappointment.
you heard of that 14 year old dying in the crash? imagine being involved in a crash and being unable to text your parents that you love them while you die because some petty adults thought "unga bunga phone bad no point of bringing a phone to school"
Absolute rubbish . Phones have only became a thing over the last 15 or so years . None of these “ problems “ you bring up were issues prior to phones being so common. Kids are in school to learn not to play on their phones . If a parent needs to contact their child then phone the school office like the generation before has to do
@@Jimmy_Cooperthe is a school near me that has a rule where you cant use your phone unless permitted this is the rule we should use
@richiebhoy1888 I agree phones should be used in schools as long as they don't go on them in lessons. Only for research. At break they should be allowed them. There is still plenty of kids messing around and playing with their phones. It's not like a zombie land.
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Should Lose Woman be banned from TV , THATS THE REAL QUESTION........Yes, is the correct answer.
Do you watch every episode throughout the week or just manageable, bite sized clips like this one?
Seriously I’m 22 and I see how dangerous technology is for kids, 4 years old? That’s crazy, talk about lazy parenting
I think phones should be allowed as it helps me with my education and if i am dping my gcse coursework i cant work without my phone as some things are blocked or dont work on the school computers. So if they ban then then my gcses are fucked. Also break and lunch at my school barely anyone is on there phones anyway there all talking or eating.
Teacher opinion here, from an actual teacher, in Texas, America:
Phones provide constant low level distraction for most students.
Most lessons do NOT require the usage of a cellphone.
The district issued laptop is the main educational technology platform
They are supposed to be taught to use their LAPTOPS to enrich their education.
If you take their phones away, they will STILL distract themselves with their laptops.
The battle is over constant distraction from education.
All the adults want is for students to exist in a distraction free environment.
Distraction Free Environment.
A social compromise, within an educational building, would go along the lines of this:
1. In a classroom, cellphones are forbidden, UNLESS ITS NEEDED FOR THE LESSON.
2. Cellphones are allowed during lunch, and MAYBE during transition.
Teaching can't happen if students are distracted.
It doesn't matter how engaging the teacher is, if the student is sitting there texting their peers
or scrolling through social media.
Also, cell phones in general are eroding the focus of students. They can't focus for any precious length of time
because they're conditioned by their cellphones to engage in constant dopamine every couple of minutes.
How about a school mode, like flight mode. But it only allows calls and gps tracking you could set during school hours.
Of course they should . Why is this even a question of some controversy . Mobiles should not be near the classroom …..no exceptions
Ban it!! Kids do not need phones!
Not for those using them as medical devices
Ban them for everyone else.
@@ajs41No parents need to stay in contact with their kids
However did kids with medical issues cope before phones existed
@@multisymptomrelief8839there is a reason we moved away from "the old days"...
@@shirleyvalentine2794 they didn't, they had worse health outcomes
Who is shouting from the audience? 😂
the is a school near me that has a rule where you cant use your phone unless permitted this is the rule we should use
If kids could do as they are asked and keep them in their bags switched off during school time there wouldn’t be a need to ban them.
I've been teaching teenagers for 15 years. The distraction of their phone is just too tempting. Even outside of lessons, they won't socialise face to face, and that's not good for them.
@@aa-fw2pw my granddad (30+ years worth of teaching teenagers) says its a waste of the government time because the education methods itself is boring and just worksheets.
as for the out-of-lessons... it really depends on the school and/or teachers. i never saw people using their phones out of lessons and i only graduated in 2020.
now, riddle me this: if the school/teachers were captivating with how they teach, would children be interested in the lesson, or would they be on their phone?
if this continues, they will go back to doodling. then what? take away their pens? pencils? paper?
The ban is to stop the videos of outrageou teachers behavior being videoed and put on social media. Its a safety feature. If your banning phones all lessons should be recorded to prevent the teachers getting away with certain comments or behaviour
No, as they can catch out the teachers lies about history etc.
I think smart phones should be banned full stop.
Bring back the dealer Nokia, cancel talentless nobodies from uploading witty videos of themselves in KFC and getting paid millions for their time, keep work or web browsing strictly for laptops that are plugged into a wall and therefore cannot be removed from a building, and for fuck$ sake, destroy anything that plays out loud in public, on buses or trains, or anywhere that makes me feel homicidal towards the disrespectful, ignorant, entitled culprits.
I think phones should be allowed at lunch and used at teacher's discretion in the classroom.
I thought they were already banned? They are just a distraction. I agree you can still use a flip phone for emergencies, no need for a smart phone.
Why are we so soft on kids it’s getting out of hand no phones in school it shouldn’t even be debated
Ban smart phones for children! Please parents buy your children only very basic phones just to make calls and without internet
Never mind the phones. I think the real question is: should we have schools? China uses education pods, which are 84% more efficient than standard learning. All that is required is that the learner be encased for up to 12 years and a small device be implanted in their brain.
I’m American. I say that because we probably have a different mindset. When my youngest was 15 or 16 a suspected shooter came to his school. I got a text from him that said “Mommy, I’m scared” he had not called me mommy for 10 years until then. The only thing that kept us both somewhat calm was being in constant contact by text. I was able to calmly explain who and what the swat team was. If I had not been in contact with him continuously I would have tried to get into the school and save my baby myself.
I agree with the ban. I can’t believe parents are forced to give in the secondary schools as the school request is to. But I found this very hard to work on our children. If they want to give online lessons; they should provide a laptop or iPad and remove it as soon as the lesson finished. We parents should be able to remove phones from our kids. I think should be completely banned from school. Kindly do it our PM.
They should be banned. If parents want to contact their kids, they can use a brick phone. Not a smart device.
No way phones shouldn't be banned
I was thinking that
@@IloveAliBromley why not?
why get a new phone rather than using a regular phone? seems like a waste of money to me. let's go back to mail while we're at it 😂
all kids caught with a phone needs the birch