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Paige MacPherson, associate director of education policy, and Alex Whalen, associate director of Atlantic prosperity, at the Fraser Institute provided the following opinion article.
Currently, the province’s public schools allow smartphones in classrooms, which teachers say create significant distraction. But one Halifax independent schoolfor students in grades 7 and 8 to lock their phones for the school day. The pouches, which cost $25 each, are stored in a plastic divider at the back of the classroom, remain locked during breaks, and are only unlocked when students leave school.The results have been “night and day.
This means that allowing kids to have their phones in their pockets on silent, as with Ontario’s incoming smartphone policy,. While there should be some exceptions for kids with unique medical needs , by allowing some students to have smartphones in class, we’re guaranteeing that other kids will be distracted and see their academic performance suffer.that it takes 20 minutes for kids to regain focus on what they were learning after being distracted.
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