by The ‘Minister’ of Education of the Generalitat, Anna Simóannounced this Sunday that the Generalitat will make public indications to restrict cell phones in schools within “maximum three weeks”. Precisely, at the end of the month the meeting of the regional councilors will take place with the Minister of Education, Pilar Alegría, to see how the use of personal cell phones in classrooms is regulated. The idea of the ministry is that they are completely prohibited in primary school while in secondary school they are used only when the teacher considers it appropriate for an academic activity. The ban on phones will extend not only to the classroom but to all school hours, which includes the patio and dining room.
The objective of Catalonia, after all the commotion organized this year with pressure from families to delay the age of having the first mobile phone, is to have the use of this technology regulated in all institutes at the start of the next academic year, in September 2024. ., explained Simmó in a Rac1 interview collected by Europa Press.
The department will prepare the recommendations for this measure, but Simó has stated that it should be the centers “that take the decisions based on instructions“provided by your department.
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“The centers will have to discuss it in advance with the entire educational community, that is, the student, faculty, family and with the center’s school council,” he said.
Simó added that “a vertical restriction does not make sense if it is not based on a prior debate.”
