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‘General acceptance’: A year of banning cellphones in Canadian classrooms
Sixteen-year-old Roha Akram was skeptical when teachers in Calgary announced a cellphone ban during the first assembly of the school year. “I was like, ‘No one’s going to follow this,'” the Grade 11 student recalled of the change in September. “It’s just the nature of teenagers. We don’t like rules.” Teachers didn’t want to see […]
Before the ban in Manitoba, Education Minister Tracy Schmidt said a school librarian complained to her that students were too quiet sitting around the stacks of books. “As we close out the first full year of implementation, we will continue gathering input to understand how the policy has worked in practice, where it has been effective, and where further support may be needed,” said spokesperson Emma Testani. “While not all students like leaving their devices out of the classroom, there is a general acceptance of the benefit of limiting cellphone use and appreciation of the opportunity to ignore their phones,” said Burke.
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