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Topic Originator: GG Riva
Date: Wed 5 Nov 17:53
I can`t quite get my head around this. Half a £million to ban mobile phones in Edinburgh school classrooms. 🤔 Can they not ask parents to keep their children`s phones at home? Or tell children that if they`re caught on their phones in class it is confiscated and collected from the school office at the of the school day for a first offence? Repeat offenders would require a parent to come into school to collect their child`s phone. A lot cheaper and more effective at putting a stop to this nonsense. Any parent not on board could be asked to find a new school for their child.....
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgqle3ypk08o.amp
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Post Edited (Wed 05 Nov 17:58)
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Topic Originator: ipswichpar
Date: Wed 5 Nov 18:10
The risk of legal action in the event a school stops a child bringing a phone in and they can`t contact a carer on the way to/from school, or the effective cost of disruption and additional parental meetings would likely be more expensive that the lockers I suspect.
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Topic Originator: mw_parsman
Date: Wed 5 Nov 18:57
I saw this and could not believe the sums involved when councils are pleading poverty.
I work for Falkirk Council and in a 2200 size school.
Our solution for the last four years has been a blue box with some foam inserts that hold 40 phones.
These are off the shelf products and cost about a fiver a box.
The whole authority use this approach and since we brought it in, never have I had a problem with a phone not being in a box, phone being lost or damaged or a phone being used in class. Even the bams buy into it because the consequences are in place to encourage them to follow the rule.
Yes, a little more teacher monitoring but it works and it works for so little cost.
I am sure these authorities must know about how we have conquered the phone problem. Headteachers meet regularly to discuss things like this.
If it was my council tax, I`d be straight to the local councillor.
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Topic Originator: Mr Mac
Date: Wed 5 Nov 19:23
Quote:
mw_parsman, Wed 5 Nov 18:57
I saw this and could not believe the sums involved when councils are pleading poverty.
I work for Falkirk Council and in a 2200 size school.
Our solution for the last four years has been a blue box with some foam inserts that hold 40 phones.
These are off the shelf products and cost about a fiver a box.
The whole authority use this approach and since we brought it in, never have I had a problem with a phone not being in a box, phone being lost or damaged or a phone being used in class. Even the bams buy into it because the consequences are in place to encourage them to follow the rule.
Yes, a little more teacher monitoring but it works and it works for so little cost.
I am sure these authorities must know about how we have conquered the phone problem. Headteachers meet regularly to discuss things like this.
If it was my council tax, I`d be straight to the local councillor.
My kids school is in the same authority (smaller roll so not the same one) they use this method, doesn`t seem to pose an issue and any child who has a medical need (e.g. blood glucose monitoring) retains theirs.
There`s no desire to ban phones completely as they are used as a means for kids to get home safely, may have payment cards etc on them too.
The plans were discussed at the Parent Council, feedback from parents and pupils sought with phased roll out setting expectations from S1 onwards, it has simply become the norm.
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Topic Originator: twin par
Date: Wed 5 Nov 19:41
What wrong with handing phones at reception,in the morning,if any emergency arises,school contacts parents,or is that too much common sense? I know things have changed,but having been schooled in the early sixties and seventies,I survived .
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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Wed 5 Nov 20:49
Yer a right Victor Meldrew, GG 😉
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: mw_parsman
Date: Wed 5 Nov 20:51
Think about the logistics of this, 2200 pupils all queuing to hand a phone in that needs to be tagged,stored and then handed back.
Just add two hours to the start and finish of the school day. Never mind the one that gets mislabeled or put in the wrong place. The extra staff to do this and the storage space. The latecomers, the leaving early for an appointment.
Much easier to let them keep it and hand it in each period.
Trust me it works, and it works well.
Most kids use them the way we do, to pay for things and contact friends/home during non contact periods.
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Topic Originator: parsmad68
Date: Wed 5 Nov 21:13
I was having a meeting with Nokia in Hungary many years ago and obviously you were not allowed personal phones inside the plant. I placed my phone inside a cubicle locker and took the key with me.
I was at the meeting for the best part of 6 hours and I remember coming down the stairs and looking at the receptionist who looked highly stressed. As I was getting my phone out of the locker another phone went off inside one of the lockers. The ringtone was some really offensive rap song and I turned to look again at the receptionist who glumly declared “It has been going off all day…..” 😂
Post Edited (Wed 05 Nov 21:14)
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