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    Edinburgh school introduces Scotland’s first phone ban and makes pupils lock away their phones in pouches
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    Edinburgh school introduces Scotland’s first phone ban and makes pupils lock away their phones in pouches

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    2. saint1997 on

      Was this not a thing before? I had to do this at my school (in London) in the late 00s / early 10s

    3. aeon_ace_77 on

      Good. Just ban smarphones altogether within school premises. Allow dumb phones and lock them in pouches during class.

    4. Thaiaaron on

      I hope common sense prevails with such diabetic students that use their smartphones to track their sugar levels.

    5. Crazy-Condition-8446 on

      Good phones have been the coup de grace, the last 20 years in education. That and mouthy parents.

    6. Particular_Tough4860 on

      >“I think, crucially, the pouch system allows young people to retain their phone. There could be a lot of anxiety if we were taking it away from them. So they get to retain their phone, but crucially, for us as a school, we get to protect their learning from the distractions of that phone.”

      >Each student will carry their pouch with them throughout the day, so in an emergency situation they can go to an unlocking station and access their device.

      I don’t fully understand this. What is wrong with just having lockers? Emergencies would surely be coordinated through teachers and the school office anyway?

      If they are having so much anxiety away from phones, it sounds like more of a reason to put them in a locker. I sort of get it, when I was working in a prison (short term contract), I had to leave my phone at the gate. I was forever turning to my phone which wasn’t there.

      “I need to google something … oh right, no phone. Perhaps I can work it out with a calculator … oh, right, no phone. I’ll take a picture and sort it after work … AHHHH – why can’t I remember for 2 second I have no phone!!”