A large box of hundreds of mobile phones, completed from 8.30 a.m. until end of lesson at 16.30 p.m.: From next year, France will collect mobile phones of pupils at school gates. "So young people can concentrate better, y play in schoolyard again, instead of watching videos," says Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer convinced.
The latest mobile phone ban on schools is an upmost. France is going even furr than its neighbouring countries. In Germany so far only a mobile phone ban is valid in Bavaria. The Minister of Culture n responded 2006 to mobbing cases on schoolyard, where students were beaten and filmed. But in meantime, school associations and parents are fighting against corresponding regulations in Bavarian school law. So only ban in Germany could soon be tipped back.
"Instead of creating such a beifallheischendes law, we should better teach everyone to deal with se everyday objects better," says 17-year-old Ugo Thomas, chairman of French Student Association SGL. He wonders how teachers wanted to collect 600 or sometimes 1,000 phones. "This is simply impossible," believes Thomas. In fact, most schools, especially elementary schools and advanced Collèges, have already written about ir house rules that phones in building must be switched off. However, y are usually allowed on break farms.
Interestingly, in social forums and in interviews especially parents complain about ban announced. They are now accustomed to always being able to reach ir children. You should be able to call when afternoon plans change. Some parents also want to support ir children in break by SMS if y are bullied. In fact, even among younger students, mobile phones are now self-evident: 94 percent of 12-year-old French and French have a cell phone according to a study. Six years ago, it was only one in five.
"As at airport""We need to reassure parents of this ban," says Frédérique Rolet, secretary general of SNES-FSU teachers ' union. The students could of course – like before invention of mobile phone – contact ir parents, for example, y should be sick or have a problem. In principle, Rolet is a prohibition. "There are students who are constantly distracted, watching videos, writing text messages or waiting for news. They lose ir attention to school. " But Rolet also wonders how cell phones are kept and who should collect m: "We can't rummage through pockets and collect phones every morning like at airport."
Education Minister Blanquer, with recent ban, implements a presidential election pledge by President Emmanuel Macron. In fact, it is surprising that Macron government is planning such a far-reaching law. So far, Liberals are more likely to praise new technologies, to equip schools better with computers and to connect rural areas with fast Internet. Already since 2010, re has been an article in school law that forbids mobile phones at all elementary schools and in Secondary College in school building itself. Only so far were break farms excluded from regulation.
Date Of Update: 19 December 2017, 12:03
