Canadian schools are experimenting with cellphone bans, but some parents say the devices are lifelines - eviltoast
  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Looks like a ban on smartphones would be more reasonable, while allowing certain kinds of old school phones (the kind for example Hasidic Jews use), to allow for emergency contingencies.

    Schools have dress codes, and people adapt to those. Maybe we just need tech codes.

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        1 year ago

        Right? I survived just fine withiut a cell phone until partway through high school. If there was an emergency, my parents would just call the school.

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          1 year ago

          In Montreal, it is common for students after a certain age to start commuting back home with public transit. Using the school as the single point of contact is not always possible.

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            1 year ago

            The ban isn’t preventing students from bringing a cell phone and keeping it turned off in their lockers all day.

            As an aside, hello fellow Montrealer.