Dutch school phone ban to come into force next month
Dutch school phone ban to come into force next month
www.euronews.com
Dutch school phone ban to come into force next month
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the rules for the 100% shouldn’t be made because 10% can’t self regulate.
Unfortunately that's hard to avoid, because those 10% will disturb lessons and take up the teacher's attention, thereby negatively affecting the other students.
Are the teachers supposed to do extra work to ensure no teen had a cell phone?
It's way easier for a teacher to take away a phone that disturbs a lesson when there are not supposed to be phones in the first place, than have to argue about exceptions and limits to the rules every time.
I agree and sympathise with your overall philosophy, but I'm also conscious of the practical limits, unfortunately.
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the rules for the 100% shouldn't be made because 10% can't self regulate.
But making the people who can't behave, behave anyway is basically the only reason we have laws.
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So I'm super curious if anyone has a good reason to not do this. I'm generally for a ban but news like this always seems to get a negative response (at least here in the states)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
From next month, secondary school pupils in the Netherlands will no longer be able to use their phones in the classroom.
The ban, which comes into force January 2024, will not only prohibit mobile phones, but also iPads, smartwatches and similar devices.
The government, which announced the change back in July, cites distracted pupils and low educational performance as reasons for the ban.
Aside from the government decision, some schools had already independently imposed rules for pupils to put their phones in lockers for the duration of the school day.
Other countries are proposing similar legislation.
The incoming ban in the Netherlands comes at the same time as UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has proposed banning social media for under 16s.
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Is this uncommon? During high school in the US in 2005, we’d get our phones taken by teachers if they saw us with it or heard it.
This is an all-day thing. Put em in the box when you get there, pick it up when you leave.
We weren't supposed to have them at all, all day. And if it got taken, they'd keep it until your parent came to get it from the office.
Phones now are a way more important part of people's (and especially teenagers') lives than they were back then. And they're often also used to support lessons.
I was in middle school in 2005 and had basically no friends largely because I had no phone to text with.