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| 1. Author: GG Riva Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 17:53 I can`t quite get my head around this. Half a £million to ban mobile phones in Edinburgh school classrooms. 🤔 Can they not ask parents to keep their children`s phones at home? Or tell children that if they`re caught on their phones in class it is confiscated and collected from the school office at the of the school day for a first offence? Repeat offenders would require a parent to come into school to collect their child`s phone. A lot cheaper and more effective at putting a stop to this nonsense. Any parent not on board could be asked to find a new school for their child..... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgqle3ypk08o.amp  Not your average Sunday League player. Post Edited (Wed 05 Nov 17:58) Reply |
| 2. Author: ipswichpar Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 18:10 The risk of legal action in the event a school stops a child bringing a phone in and they can`t contact a carer on the way to/from school, or the effective cost of disruption and additional parental meetings would likely be more expensive that the lockers I suspect. Reply |
| 3. Author: mw_parsman Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 18:57 I saw this and could not believe the sums involved when councils are pleading poverty. I work for Falkirk Council and in a 2200 size school. Our solution for the last four years has been a blue box with some foam inserts that hold 40 phones. These are off the shelf products and cost about a fiver a box. The whole authority use this approach and since we brought it in, never have I had a problem with a phone not being in a box, phone being lost or damaged or a phone being used in class. Even the bams buy into it because the consequences are in place to encourage them to follow the rule. Yes, a little more teacher monitoring but it works and it works for so little cost. I am sure these authorities must know about how we have conquered the phone problem. Headteachers meet regularly to discuss things like this. If it was my council tax, I`d be straight to the local councillor. Reply |
| 4. Author: Mr Mac Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 19:23 mw_parsman, Wed 5 Nov 18:57 My kids school is in the same authority (smaller roll so not the same one) they use this method, doesn`t seem to pose an issue and any child who has a medical need (e.g. blood glucose monitoring) retains theirs. There`s no desire to ban phones completely as they are used as a means for kids to get home safely, may have payment cards etc on them too. The plans were discussed at the Parent Council, feedback from parents and pupils sought with phased roll out setting expectations from S1 onwards, it has simply become the norm.  Reply |
| 5. Author: twin par Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 19:41 What wrong with handing phones at reception,in the morning,if any emergency arises,school contacts parents,or is that too much common sense? I know things have changed,but having been schooled in the early sixties and seventies,I survived . Reply |
| 6. Author: buffy Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 20:49 Yer a right Victor Meldrew, GG 😉 ”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019” Reply |
| 7. Author: mw_parsman Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 20:51 Think about the logistics of this, 2200 pupils all queuing to hand a phone in that needs to be tagged,stored and then handed back. Just add two hours to the start and finish of the school day. Never mind the one that gets mislabeled or put in the wrong place. The extra staff to do this and the storage space. The latecomers, the leaving early for an appointment. Much easier to let them keep it and hand it in each period. Trust me it works, and it works well. Most kids use them the way we do, to pay for things and contact friends/home during non contact periods. Reply |
| 8. Author: parsmad68 Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 21:13 I was having a meeting with Nokia in Hungary many years ago and obviously you were not allowed personal phones inside the plant. I placed my phone inside a cubicle locker and took the key with me. I was at the meeting for the best part of 6 hours and I remember coming down the stairs and looking at the receptionist who looked highly stressed. As I was getting my phone out of the locker another phone went off inside one of the lockers. The ringtone was some really offensive rap song and I turned to look again at the receptionist who glumly declared “It has been going off all day…..” 😂 Post Edited (Wed 05 Nov 21:14) Reply |
| 9. Author: veteraneastender Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 22:12 twin par, Wed 5 Nov 19:41 The office admin people would simply refuse any such suggestion, rightly so. Reply |
| 10. Author: jake89 Date: Wed 5th Nov 2025. 22:14 The policy in Fife is you can have your mobile but you`re not allowed it out in class or in the corridors so can only use it at break and lunch. According to my son the kids follow that rule. Why on Earth waste money on stupid bags? Reply |
| 11. Author: GG Riva Date: Thu 6th Nov 2025. 07:24 ipswichpar, Wed 5 Nov 18:10 At the risk of sounding even more like Victor Meldrew, this is exactly the issue, Ipswich. Edinburgh Council running scared of a legal challenge, pussyfooting around, costing hugely expensive ways to prevent kids going on their phones in class. It`s high time they grew a set and informed school pupils and their parents that this is not on as it disrupts the education of so many children. Some play games on their phones, others chat to children in other classes etc. Funnily enough, a friend of mine, who was a Depute Head in a Fife HS, messaged me to say that his school used the very policy I advocated in my OP and it worked a treat. By all means, pupils should be able to bring their phones to school, provided they do not take them out in class. If they do, the consequences should be clearly laid out. Any parent not prepared to back the school should be invited to find another school for their child. Let`s ask ourselves what the purpose of schools is.... Not your average Sunday League player. Reply |
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