{"id":13565,"date":"2024-03-03T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/banning-phones-in-schools-is-just-another-ploy-to-distract-us-eva-wiseman\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T07:37:14","slug":"banning-phones-in-schools-is-just-another-ploy-to-distract-us-eva-wiseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/03\/banning-phones-in-schools-is-just-another-ploy-to-distract-us-eva-wiseman\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning phones in schools is just another ploy to distract us | Eva Wiseman"},"content":{"rendered":"

We need nuance and empathy in addressing this complex issue<\/p>\n

Whenever the government talks about the dangers to children of the mobile phone we must picture this phone as a large rock under which a hundred shameful decisions live in darkness.<\/p>\n

I have concerns about mobile phones, of course I do. I\u2019ve followed Esther Ghey\u2019s campaign to ban smartphones for kids<\/a>, and how education secretary Gillian Keegan has leapt upon this, with cautious interest. My eldest child will soon be approaching secondary school, and while I\u2019d vaguely assumed that her generation would find phones desperately unchic by the time they came of carrying age, associating them with dull and red-eyed parents, this does not appear to be the case. And the stories I hear from teachers or parents of teenagers sometimes chill me \u2013 the ways that bullying mutates online, or how phones exacerbate poor mental health, or teens\u2019 sinister, quotidian acts of surveillance.<\/p>\n

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\nWe need nuance and empathy in addressing this complex issue
\nWhenever the government talks about the dangers to children of the mobile phone we must picture this phone as a large rock under which a hundred shameful decisions live in darkness.
\nI have concerns about mobile phones, of course I do. I\u2019ve followed Esther Ghey\u2019s campaign to ban smartphones for kids, and how education secretary Gillian Keegan has leapt upon this, with cautious interest. My eldest child will soon be approaching secondary school, and while I\u2019d vaguely assumed that her generation would find phones desperately unchic by the time they came of carrying age, associating them with dull and red-eyed parents, this does not appear to be the case. And the stories I hear from teachers or parents of teenagers sometimes chill me \u2013 the ways that bullying mutates online, or how phones exacerbate poor mental health, or teens\u2019 sinister, quotidian acts of surveillance. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We need nuance and empathy in addressing this complex issue Whenever the government talks about the dangers to children of the mobile phone we must picture this phone as a large rock under which a hundred shameful decisions live in darkness. I have concerns about mobile phones, of course I do. I\u2019ve followed Esther Ghey\u2019s …<\/p>\n

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