Numerous faculty districts have instituted smartphone bans for college students throughout the faculty day however a British boarding faculty has taken it one step additional. Wait, scratch that. They’ve taken it one step again.
Eton School, the historic and elite British boarding faculty with well-known alumni equivalent to Prince William and Harry, Ian Fleming and Tom Hiddleston, has instituted a brand new cell phone coverage for its first-year college students beginning in September. These college students should depart their smartphones at dwelling however convey their SIM card to high school and put it in an old-fashioned, offline Nokia cellphone with a easy quantity pad that may solely make cellphone calls and ship textual content messages, based on CBS News.
The British boarding faculty’s coverage relies on pointers from the UK government that permits principals to enact smartphone bans on college students throughout the faculty day.
Let’s hope no person tells faculty officers about Snake or these poor children could have to truly listen and be taught one thing.
Smartphone bans and pointers are beginning to seep into American faculty districts as nicely. Based on information from Govspend, 41 states have a minimum of one faculty district that instituted a rule requiring college students to position their smartphones in magnetically sealed Yondr pouches once they go to high school.
The Los Angeles Unified Faculty District handed a district-wide faculty cellphone ban for college students in June that prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to name for the same regulation on the state degree.
In the meantime in New York City, town’s chancellor of public colleges David Banks mentioned he plans to institute a cellphone ban within the coming weeks. New York Governor Kathy Hochul is working with the state’s legislature to cross two new payments that might solely enable college students to hold telephones that don’t have entry web entry
Even Florida (sure, that Florida, the one which’s dwelling to 10 million Florida Mans) has a statewide smartphone in schools ban that additionally requires colleges to dam college students from accessing social media on its Wifi networks.
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