When Ryan Ihle first heard that his school was going to ban mobile phones he wasn't thrilled.Narre Warren South students Madeleine Gwynne, 15, Joanna Ramea, 17, Ryan Ihle, 17, Melinda Rogerson and Michaela Ford, 15, are adjusting to the ban.The year 12 student at Narre Warren South P-12 College liked to use his phone to play music through his earphones during class assignments, block out the world and get his work done quickly.
“They've embraced it, I wouldn’t say wholeheartedly and enthusiastically, but they’ve accepted that this is the way things are now." “The biggest challenge for us has been some of the parents, who want to be able to contact their kids 24/7,” Mr Duncan says. Brauer College, a government secondary school in Warrnambool, used its grant money to take a more novel approach.Students must slip their phone into a pouch and lock it first thing, but are permitted to carry it with them.Principal Jane Boyle said that in time, the pouch system would give teachers the discretion to allow students to use their phones in class for defined learning purposes.“There is a lovely calmness around the school when you walk around.
For god's sake put the bloody phones away for the day. You won't die.
There is an honest need for kids travelling to have mobile phones with them on school days. However, there isn't a need for them to use them during school. I like the idea of the pouches rather than the lockers though personally.
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The last thing students need in school are iPhones!!!
“The biggest challenge for us has been some of the parents, who want to be able to contact their kids 24/7,” Mr Duncan says. The parents!? ....
What are they at school for, oh how silly of me it's about a social life nothing to do with learning.
They are talking to one another again and they think that they are 'pushing back', hahahahaha. They are doing exactly what the ban was supposed to make them do.