A 12-year-old boy plays with his personal phone outside school in Barcelona, Spain, on June 17, 2024. Manitoba, now the only western Canadian province without an overarching cellphone ban in school classrooms, says an update is coming.
Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides announced in June that personal devices will need to be turned off and stored out of sight during class time, with exceptions for specialized learning or medical needs. The head of the Alberta Teachers' Association says the rollout of new policies banning cellphone use in classrooms starting this fall has some teachers confused about how they'll be expected to follow them.
In a statement, Nicolaides said while the ban takes effect in the fall, he's leaving it up to local school authorities to finalize their own policies by the new year. The province's move to crack down on cellphones in schools followed the announcement of similar restrictions in Quebec, Ontario and B.C.Ontario's policy on student cellphone use starts this fall. Should this northern board dial restrictions up?
Meanwhile, some Alberta school divisions say they're ready to have the new ban in place as soon as school starts.
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