Gety picturesThe Baby Commissioner in England said that the ban on school phones should be a decision on the main teachers and not “imposed the government at the national level.”
Nine of every ten secondary schools are restricted to the use of smartphones, according to a survey of 19,000 schools and colleges commissioned by Mrs. Rachel de Souza.
Ms. Rachel said that children were raising hours from the screen time at home instead, and that parents need more help to manage their children’s habits online.
Her comments as Secretary -General of the largest educational union in the United Kingdom come that the government ban on phones “will pressure schools.”
Mrs. Rachel’s survey indicates that 99.8 % of primary schools and 90 % of secondary schools limit students’ use of phones during the school day.
Most primary schools (76 %) require students to hand them over to their phones or leave them in a safe place throughout the day, while most high schools (79 %) say that phones should remain out of view and are not used.
The survey has not completely covered the extent of these policies, or its success rate.
A separate survey is proposed from 502 to 15 years old, commissioned by Mrs. Rachel ::
- 69 % of children spend more than two hours a day on a device
- 23 % of children spend more than four hours a day
“These children do not spend these hours on their phones while they sat at school,” Damil said in a new report. “It goes much wider.”
She said that parents and sponsorships “need to support them in managing their children’s activities via the Internet and setting the appropriate borders”, and technology companies “must take responsibility for making the world safe via the Internet by design.”
Meanwhile, “schools should continue to obtain clear policies on the use of the phone” as well as educating young people about the risks online.
“Any president who decides to ban mobile phones from their school has full support – but this must always be chosen, based on his knowledge of what is better for children in their classroom, not the trend imposed by the government at the national level,” said Dam Rachel.
However, its report also recommended that the government “should” conduct more research on the potential benefits of the broader restrictions on children’s use of phones, especially social media. “
A government spokesman said that social media platforms should already be downloaded illegal articles under the online safety law, and that the same law will soon protect children from harmful content via the Internet, including women and violence.
The government said there Indeed, instructions on how schools restrict the use of phonesThe main teachers can decide how to put it into practice.
But Daniel Kibidi, Secretary -General of the National Union of Education, said he believed that the government embargo on smart phones in schools “will help parents, but also to get rid of schools.”
“Most schools have the rules in place, however [a ban] “It will create unification through the school system, which will be very important and ensure the development of a new culture that smartphones have not been possessed during the school period,” he said.
He said that the UK should think Follow the steps of Australia By banning social media for less than 16 years, adding: “We have to look at the world over the Internet, social media and mobile phones in the same post that we see tobacco companies. This is harmful to our youth and needs to be organized.”
