should pupils be banned from taking mobile phones to school?
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danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
He does, yes. But I think you'll be disappointed. He sells spectacle frames to opticians.
dream_girl
waiting for my ban
I have two. One's for work and one's for home. I'm not sure why a kid would need more than one though unless it was because they had different features on them.
i think a school should have a consistant policy about them. it's no surprise that some kids get in trouble for playing with their phones in some lessons when teachers of other lessons often let them have them out to play music on, like at our teen's school. "but miss, mr so-and-so lets us have our phones out"
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Yes. One of the things we often used to come-up against were parents who were working-out their self-worth issues via their children. Kitting thm out in the biggest names & with all the latest gadgets was a very common one. Some of the theiving ones knew this & took full advantage. Phones can also play a part in the never-ending cycle of difference/diviseiveness that seems to thrive in a typical school environment.
In the end, partly to deter theft compensation claims, we priced-up a basic uniform & extras (coats, shoes, trainers, bags etc) from sensible suppliers & circulated it each year. As well as providing help for the parents with more limited budgets/with assistance etc, it also served to limit our liability when someone lifted personal items.
Unless there is a pressing medical/family issue that would benifit from mobile contact, I really don't see any reason why they need to take a phone to school.
Equally, if they have been allowed to take a phone & then taken the piss with it, that gives good enough reason to strip them of the privilege.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Are school dinners that bad these days that kids go to Greggs???!!!
...and why do kids need more than one phone? Only people I know that have more than one are drug dealers!!
they go before school. we don't let them out during the day.
they have more than one phone for various reasons - eg:
they were given them by members of their family - either as hand me downs or presents.
they're looking after them for a friend
they've nicked it
they keep an old one so they can sacrifice that when it gets confiscated / they get mugged (which i think is quite clever).
they have a phone which is just for their boyfriend's use
probably other reasons too.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Are school dinners that bad these days that kids go to Greggs???!!!
...and why do kids need more than one phone? Only people I know that have more than one are drug dealers!!
and serial love cheats of course.
Kanda
Diving wanker
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
balls deep in museli
Cloo
Banana for scale
I don't know... I sometimes find it hard to imagine how their presence has probably changed things in school and socially for kids. Personally, I can't think of any reason kids should have them in school time, but you'd probably encounter hordes of paranoid parents saying that you have to let them take them in because what if something happens to their little darlings between the car and the school gate? 
dream_girl
waiting for my ban
but you'd probably encounter hordes of paranoid parents saying that you have to let them take them in because what if something happens to their little darlings between the car and the school gate?
Most likely they'll get run over by one of the other parents' 4x4
. I don;t see how a phone could help with this though.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
As someone whose done a bit of teaching, my experience says that where the school doesn't sanction heavily their use on site so that there is a culture of non-use they become a disruptive influence. I'd say yes.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
None of these are any sort of practical justification for having a phone in school, are they?
foo
dirtysweet
this.
in my experience, if schools are sensible and strict about phones - they don't seem to be a big problem.
this is just what i've heard from teachers when i've gone in to a few schools, might not be the same in all of them though. i'll admit i thought they'd be more of an issue than they seem to be.
foo
dirtysweet
My brother has more than one mobile phone. Why, I have no idea. As with so much else in his life.
i have two mobile phones, a work one and my own.
my stepdaugther has three. all different colours.
Cloo
Banana for scale
I gather this is a common problem.
_angel_
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That's not much of an argument. At our school, you soon learnt not to bring owt expensive/ valuable in with you. There was no uniform policy in those days.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
nope - they were explanations as to why kids might have more than one. Do pay attention.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I cant think of a single reason why a kid would need one during school hours, so yeah, ban the little fuckers from having them.
_angel_
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It's when they get out of school parents might want to keep tabs on them. So just confiscate them until the end of school/ break.
Plus, potential truancy detector!
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Amazing how parents never used to need to do this.
_angel_
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No, never had the technology to do so. I'm pretty certain if I was school age my parents wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to monitor my every movement!
editor
hiraethified
Sorry, are you really saying that the theft of mobile phones from schoolkids isn't a problem?
Now that really would be a stupid argument.
_angel_
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Yes it would be. They should be working to eradicate thievery at school. Not telling people not to do stuff in case it attracts the attention of criminal activity.
editor
hiraethified
Only if they answer it. Or the teacher hasn't confiscated it. Or it hasn't been stolen/lost/loaned/left round little Timmy's house etc etc....
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I know for a fact mine wouldn't have monitored me, we had this strange thing called "trust" going.
Parents that want to wrap their precious little darlings up in cotton woll and monitor their every fucking move depress the hell out of me.
_angel_
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My parents would have jumped at the chance. Tbh I would probably give mine mobiles if they could, like, talk.. just for emergencies.
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