What Say You? New French Law Prohibits Students Under 15

Phones are irritating in the classroom, but they can be useful.

I can take or leave phones.

I am more of the mind that we dont necessarily regulate who or when they have a phone. I would rather we teach our kids when and where its appropriate to have them. There are some adults who haven't learned this lesson yet.

Good

hey, we didn't have phones in school and we survived just fine.

France is still very old school when it comes to teaching. I don’t know that many schools use school-owned devices. Also, many of the usual sites teachers like to use in the US would not be usable in the EU due to the laws about privacy for kids.

Yes!  21 years of teaching and I cannot think of a single reason a kid would need to call their parent from a cell phone in the usual course of the day.  Every classroom and the office all have phones students may use if they need to call someone.  

phones are so disruptive to the day.  If there is a fight, kids with phones record it and start sharing it IMMEDIATELY.  Kids go to the restroom and text their friends in other classes.  Parents come to get their kid who has texted them they’re sick and the office has no clue the kid called.

My elementary aged kid uses technology daily on school owned devices, and kids in middle school or high school can use smart phones in place of a separate advanced calculator.

My son has used an iPad daily all the way through 3 private schools. One was provided by the school, the other two schools required kids to have their own. Most of his class and homework was done on the iPads and submitted electronically. He’s at a public middle school now and is having to get used to hauling heavy textbooks to and from school instead of accessing them online.

I can’t even imagine teaching without 1:1 devices anymore.

I'm in Australia and phones will be banned in our classrooms here in Victoria as of 1st term 2020. I don't have a problem with it. It will cause a couple of issues though. At the moment their schedules are on their phones. But their are ways around this.

www.premier.vic.gov.au/mobile-phones-to-be-banned-next-year-in-all-state-schools/

My thoughts exactly - people survived in school for hundreds of years without phones - personally, I think it is a good idea, it keeps their focus on schoolwork instead of looking at their phone/tablet.

I think it's a great idea. I can't imagine the time some teachers have to spend policing kids' personal cell phones in the classroom.
I think sometimes they just give up.

I wish it could happen here, but too many parents would push back about it, at least in the public school system.

 Two of my kids attend a private elementary/middle school. They are not allowed to have cell phones out during the school day. The parents and kids have to sign a form stating that the rule is understood. I know it might be hard to believe but the kids really do follow the rule. Collectively, we as parents spend big money on that school and we want the kids to learn as much as they can. (it's a school for kids with learning disabilities such as dyslexia along with adhd.) I think it really helps to have a small school with small classrooms and parents who are on the same page. I've asked several teachers and my kids if the rule is followed and everyone said yes. Each student is assigned a laptop computer for schoolwork. The computer is also brought home except over holidays then the computers are turned into the school. The school monitors the computers.

Of course the kids have a way around the rule. They do it old school, handwritten notes that are passed between them! How retro.

As soon as the kids are on their way home they start the snapchatting/instagramming.

Good for the French.