Mobile phone bans and other methods to create “calm classrooms” are to be looked at in order to improve discipline in England’s schools.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said he wants to make the school day mobile-free, describing the devices as “distracting” and “damaging”.
A consultation will ask the views of teachers and parents on how to promote good behaviour however head teachers have accused Williamson of being “obsessed” with phones in school.
The six-week call for evidence is part of a government review of behaviour, discipline, suspensions and permanent exclusions in England’s schools.
This includes finding what has been effective in tackling low-level disruptive behaviour and whether discipline has been affected by the pandemic.
Mobile phones in school have been linked to cyberbullying and problems from social media and online videos – and schools have policies on how they can be used and some already have bans in place.
There have also been concerns about the sharing of internet pornography through mobile phones, highlighted after the Everyone’s Invited website revealed a culture of sexual harassment among some school students.
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