Banning of Mobile Phones in UK Schools!

[Chris]

They were allowed in my school but were to be switched off and only to be used for emergency's. In my college no one cares about mobiles, it seems most people use them freely in class.

Anyway, I think this is an impossible thing to enforce so they would be wasting their time trying.

[Mathew]

Ah, the government are trying to get involved where it doesn't concern them - it doesn't seem possible to enforce effectively anyway. At the end of the day, if you're using your phone in a lesson then it's showing a complete lack of respect for the teacher and others in the class. I do hope they're not saying that texting is responsible for an apparent diminishing of good language usage. Somehow, I just can't see that being the case at all.

[GommeInc]

Pointless law. It should be done on a localised, school level. Let the school set their rules, not have the Government waste millions to draft a Bill and push it through to become law when a school can do it in 5 seconds with a "No phones in school or in lessons". Easy. My school did it, you give it in at the beginning of the day. It's so worryingly bizarre that the Government and the school system is so incompetent.

[-:Undertaker:-]

While I support this as a school policy, I fail to see why government needs to introduce this legislation when schools that are perfectly capable of banning them now do (not many I know) and those that aren't capable of any kind of discipline still won't be able to after a piece of paper is passed as law in Parliament.

Ah but then I forgot, we live in a political age of cheap headline policy stunts as to avoid any real political discussion.