Concerned about "engagement and learning skills" in her school's Grade 9 math class, a principal in Brockville, Ont., emailed a letter to parents promising a crackdown on cellphones in the classroom.A Grade 9 math class teacher at Thousand Islands Secondary School asked her students to turn on their cell phone notifications for one hour. This is a tally of all the notifications they received.
CBC reached out to the Upper Canada District School Board to request interviews with the principal and the teacher, but the board declined. That "uniformed front" was nice to see, said Jonathan Cross, whose 15-year-old daughter Ava is in Grade 9 at TISS. Teachers at TISS have been taking phones away since the letter went out, Ava said. Other students are working harder to manage their own phone habits."Some of the kids that I know stopped bringing their phone to class because their grades are getting really bad," she said. "But most of the kids, they just don't care at all."
"Society in general went to a lot of technology to cope through COVID and connecting that way, and now some people just utilize that more than face-to-face skills — and that's not just students," he said.The principal's letter also expressed concerns around poor attendance among Grade 9 students.
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