Loads of faculty districts have instituted smartphone bans for college kids in the course of 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 reminiscent of 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 must depart their smartphones at dwelling however convey their SIM card to highschool and put it in an old-fashioned, offline Nokia mobile phone with a easy quantity pad that may solely make cellphone calls and ship textual content messages, in response to CBS News.
The British boarding faculty’s coverage relies on tips from the UK government that permits principals to enact smartphone bans on college students in the course of the faculty day.
Let’s hope no one tells faculty officers about Snake or these poor children might have to really listen and be taught one thing.
Smartphone bans and tips are beginning to seep into American faculty districts as nicely. In keeping with information from Govspend, 41 states have no less than one faculty district that instituted a rule requiring college students to position their smartphones in magnetically sealed Yondr pouches after they go to highschool.
The Los Angeles Unified Faculty District handed a district-wide faculty cellphone ban for college kids in June that prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to name for the same legislation on the state stage.
In the meantime in New York City, the 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 go two new payments that may solely permit 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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