France bans smartphones from schools

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1 hour ago, elijahfan said:

lol I was at a private catholic school back in the day and mobile phones were already forbidden to us  Welcome to the club, people

Same! We could take them but had to hand them over to the secretary until classes were over. It’s not that big a deal but I’m sure most of the comments will say otherwise.

[elijahfan 27,562]

2 minutes ago, darkpaw said:

Same! We could take them but had to hand them over to the secretary until classes were over. It’s not that big a deal but I’m sure most of the comments will say otherwise.

People will now have to talk to each other between classes, ew 

[Eggsy 8,280]

Good, Education wins. 

[StarstruckIllusion 53,680]

Tragic. Canada actually embraces them and a lot of it lessons and homework was online and stuff. We even used this graphic app called Desmos in math to help us understand better. Ugh our minds. Poor French kids. 

Also trash at most of these comments. We shouldn’t celebrate a regression just bc you lived your life in the past. Imagine if cars were suddenly banned and people started having to use horses again? Imagine saying that wouldn’t piss you off.

And yet the people in the 1800s wouldn’t be mad at it at all but no one today would consider them a standard of living in 2018. 

And I thought France was a progressive country oof. Where’s that French Revolution energy when you need it 

[Linus Gaga 8,519]

When i was in school, we have to give our phone to the teacher before class and the teacher will put all of them in the office, and they will give us back afterschool. Ofcuz if there is gaga event,like the oscar 2015,  i just keep my phone in my pocket in order to see pics on insta and gagadaily immediately 

[Morphine Prince 109,968]

1 hour ago, neptugne said:

not to mention a smart phone is a privilege and many people don’t even have one

Didn't mean to quote this lol.

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2 hours ago, Scathach said:

This.

And think about the lonely kids without friends who use their phones when they have to wait between class (sometimes hours) ? Thankfully it never happened to me.

Omg they’re about to go thru hell ugh they have my prayers. 

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1 hour ago, Scathach said:

This.

And think about the lonely kids without friends who use their phones when they have to wait between class (sometimes hours) ? Thankfully it never happened to me.

i mean they could just... read book or talk to people lmao

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At my old high school here in the U.S., starting in 2014 they allowed us to use our cellphones only during lunch, and quite possibly during class only if our teachers allowed us. This was most likely due to our school district getting personal laptops for all students.

Why is France being messy? The schools should already have rules in the handbooks regarding cellphone, and the teacher should enforce them. Just straight banning them is terrible.

[GypsyBabe 22,836]

I’m older so my time in middle school/high school didn’t really have smartphones, more like the regular flip phones...but if a teacher saw one out then they would take it and leave it in the principals office. But my generation could function without cell phones because it was common to not have them. People still had house phones and you knew everyones phone numbers off the top of your head including your parents work numbers. If a parent was going to be late then they called the school...etc...

When I got to college though, everyone had their smartphones out and it was really annoying, distracting, and disrespectful to the teacher and other students. Classrooms are for learning, not  for surfing twitter. Otherwise you should just stay home. It’s not like you are absorbing the knowledge anyway. 

Also, with online bullying being so rampant, I really feel like removing phones from school is a good idea. When my sister was in highschool, it was not uncommon for girls to tweet out mean things about their classmates during classes. 

 

[RAMROD 118,011]

That's cool.

Kids need to socialize and do some productive activities again at school as they should be.

Then go home when school's out and updating their twitter or whatever.

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2 hours ago, Mirrion Rizzons said:

well in UK schools we can have them as long as we don't use them while school is on

We weren't really "allowed" them in most schools around here but we had them, one day like in like year 7/8 they had to close school and it was a DISASTER because they had to contact every parent themself for the kids that didn't actually have phones

This was in like 2007 though and i forget im getting old and kids get phones at like 9 years old now 

I didn't get one until year 8 and that's because loads of other kids had phones and i was left out

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31 minutes ago, Wigless said:

Also trash at most of these comments. We shouldn’t celebrate a regression just bc you lived your life in the past. Imagine if cars were suddenly banned and people started having to use horses again? Imagine saying that wouldn’t piss you off.

It’s not a regression though. School is for using your mind and developing social skills. Social media does neither...and that is what most people are doing on their phones in school. 

It is great that Canada tries to incorporate the use of cell phones into their curriculum as cell phone use during class time is inevitable, but I see no problem with what France is doing. Cell phones, though they can be beneficial in some instances, are a distraction. 

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Just now, Unbeweavable said:

This was in like 2007 though and i forget im getting old and kids get phones at like 9 years old now 

I graduated high school in 2007

I remember being excited when I got accepted into college because once you officially had a confirmed college email address then you could get a Facebook to network with other college kids. Ahhh, such simpler times. 

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2 minutes ago, GypsyBabe said:

I graduated high school in 2007

I remember being excited when I got accepted into college because once you officially had a confirmed college email address then you could get a Facebook to network with other college kids. Ahhh, such simpler times. 

I'm kinda happy about being apart of the simpler times just before everything turned into how it is now  I mean I remember having tapes and pretty much no internet, not having DVDs and CDs and I feel for kids who never had to go through those struggles  I mean imagine not knowing TV was always live and only had 5 channels that worked unless you weren't semi-poor