When it comes to determining what should be done about cell-phone use in schools, everyone is out to lunch.
The debate is heating up again in many locations about whether cell-phone use in the classroom should be banned.
The Province is passing the buck so far, indicating it should be up to the individual school districts to make a decision. Wrong answer. Send the governing NDP party to the back of the class.
This is a case where a definitive answer truly needs to come from the Province so a policy is established one way or another.
Could you imagine if little Johnny moves with his family from a place in the Sooke School District where, let’s say, cell phones are allowed in classes to the Cowichan Valley School District, where for the sake of argument, cell phones are banned.
Wouldn’t that be not only confusing for the child, but also open up a can of worms about some parent suddenly having to pull the plug when it was supposedly OK before.
As usual, it just seems making procedures regarding cell phones lags way behind the times.
Remember the days when cell phones were openly allowed to be used in vehicles; at least no one said they couldn’t.
Along comes some geniuses who suddenly wake up to the fact that driving while texting or chatting on a cell phone could be dangerous and laws are implemented. But how much time passed before that happened?
Cell phones weren’t just invented so it appears a wake-up call should have been in order to the Ministry of Education and school districts long before this.
The bottom line is kids using cell phones in classrooms will probably be unproductive. They associate cell phones with Facebook, Instagram accounts and chatting with their friends; not with school work.
It’s time to put an end to the debate right now. There’s no real purpose to having cell phones in the classroom as a learning tool, per se. That’s why we have computers.
We certainly don’t need both in the teaching process and it’ll just cause more problems than it’s worth.