{"id":11747,"date":"2023-10-02T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-phones-in-schools-like-the-devices-this-ban-is-a-distraction-editorial\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T18:39:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T16:39:45","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-phones-in-schools-like-the-devices-this-ban-is-a-distraction-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-phones-in-schools-like-the-devices-this-ban-is-a-distraction-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on phones in schools: like the devices, this ban is a distraction | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The education secretary is lagging behind headteachers \u2013 and ignoring much bigger problems<\/p>\n<p>That smartphones cause problems in schools is not a novel observation. It is roughly a decade since they became ubiquitous in the UK \u2013 along with many other countries \u2013 including among teenagers. Since then, day-to-day experience and research have created widespread awareness of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jun\/02\/teacher-smartphone-children-mental-health-internet\" title=\"\">social and behavioural difficulties<\/a> with which they are linked \u2013 despite their huge popularity and undoubted entertainment value.<\/p>\n<p>Most secondary schools have clear policies about mobile phone use. Hardly any permit it during lessons, although rules about break times are variable. So the announcement by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, that the government is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2023\/oct\/02\/gillian-keegan-plans-to-ban-mobile-phones-from-english-schools\" title=\"\">issue a ban<\/a> in England, deserves to be viewed as a political stunt rather than a serious contribution to schools policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/oct\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-phones-in-schools-like-the-devices-this-ban-is-a-distraction\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8339968d93ab3aa94accb8fbb4a6bf93c0e8efd4\/0_0_6112_3668\/master\/6112.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=177c9b6f9f471d3c1083d858d0823ad9\" title=\"The Guardian view on phones in schools: like the devices, this ban is a distraction | Editorial\" \/>The education secretary is lagging behind headteachers \u2013 and ignoring much bigger problems<br \/>\nThat smartphones cause problems in schools is not a novel observation. It is roughly a decade since they became ubiquitous in the UK \u2013 along with many other countries \u2013 including among teenagers. Since then, day-to-day experience and research have created widespread awareness of the social and behavioural difficulties with which they are linked \u2013 despite their huge popularity and undoubted entertainment value.<br \/>\nMost secondary schools have clear policies about mobile phone use. Hardly any permit it during lessons, although rules about break times are variable. So the announcement by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, that the government is to issue a ban in England, deserves to be viewed as a political stunt rather than a serious contribution to schools policy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The education secretary is lagging behind headteachers \u2013 and ignoring much bigger problems That smartphones cause problems in schools is not a novel observation. It is roughly a decade since they became ubiquitous in the UK \u2013 along with many other countries \u2013 including among teenagers. Since then, day-to-day experience and research have created widespread &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/the-guardian-view-on-phones-in-schools-like-the-devices-this-ban-is-a-distraction-editorial\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Guardian view on phones in schools: like the devices, this ban is a distraction | Editorial<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}