Francia/Diciembre de 2017/Autor: Henry Samuel/Fuente: The Telegraph
Resumen: Francia debe imponer una prohibición total a los alumnos que usan teléfonos móviles en escuelas primarias y secundarias a partir de septiembre de 2018, confirmó su ministro de educación. Los teléfonos ya están prohibidos en las aulas de francés, pero a partir del próximo año escolar, los alumnos no podrán sacarlos durante los descansos, el almuerzo y entre las clases. Sin embargo, los maestros y los padres están divididos por una prohibición total, y algunos dicen que los niños deben poder «vivir en su tiempo». En Francia, alrededor del 93 por ciento de los jóvenes de 12 a 17 años poseen teléfonos móviles.
France is to impose a total ban on pupils using mobile phones in primary and secondary schools starting in September 2018, its education minister has confirmed.
Phones are already forbidden in French classrooms but starting next school year, pupils will be barred from taking them out at breaks, lunch times and between lessons.
Teachers and parents are divided over a total ban, however, with some saying children must be able to «live in their time». In France, some 93 per cent of 12 to 17-year-olds own mobile phones.
«This is about ensuring the rules and the law are respected. The use of telephones is banned in class. With headmasters, teachers and parents, we must come up with a way of protecting pupils from loss of concentration via screens and phones,» he said.
«Are we going to ban mobile phones from schools? The answer is yes.»
Studies suggest that a significant number of pupils continue to use their mobiles in class and receive or send calls or text messages.
Up to 40 per cent of punishments are mobile-related, according to Philippe Tournier, a Paris headmaster with the Snpden-Unsa teaching union. But he said it was tricky to know how to clamp down on the practice without being able to, say, search pupils’ bags.
«We are currently working on this [ban] and it could work in various ways,» said Mr Blanquer. «Phones may be needed for teaching purposes or in cases of emergency so mobile phones will have to be locked away.»
Earlier this year, he suggested that if French politicians were able to put their phones away during council of ministers meetings, then surely it was «possible for any human group, including a class» to do the same.
The practice is already in use in many French «colleges», or primary schools.
«A box placed on the table at the entrance to my class awaits mobile phones. I have never had any problems. It takes two minutes at the start of each hour. This was already the case in primary schools I worked in in Paris,,» one teacher based in Rueil-Malmaison told Le Figaro.
In another establishment in Essonne area, pupils place their phones in named bags in an office at the school entrance and take them back at the end of the day.
But one headmaster in Marseille, southern France, said he remained unconvinced but this «so-called miracle solution», saying that phones could get mixed up, lost or stolen. «If they are switched off at the bottom of the bag, then it works,» he said.
Peep, one of France’s biggest parents’ associations, has already expressed scepticism. «We don’t think it’s possible at the moment,» said its head, Gerard Pommier.
«Imagine a secondary school with 600 pupils. Are they going to put all their phones in a box? How do you store them? And give them back at the end?,» he asked.
«One must live with the times. It would be more intelligent to pose rules and discuss their meaning with pupils,» said Peep, pointing out that «adults themselves are not always exemplary with mobiles».
But for the education minister the issue of mobile phones and tablets is a matter of «public health». «It’s important that children under the age of seven are not in front of these screens,» he added.
The minister also sees the move as a way of cutting down on cyber-bullying. The ban would apply to children up to 15 but phones would be allowed in lycees (secondary school).
Fuente: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/11/france-impose-total-ban-mobile-phones-schools/
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