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Will the mobile phone ban soon at German schools?
A study from England shows that students show better performance if they don't have a cell phone.
More and more schools in Germany are limiting the use of cell phones on the school premises. A study from England shows what this can do.
Every day of us wastes a lot of time on the cell phone. Since news, apps, podcasts and music and before you know each other attract, the screen time has grown to an unhealthy number of hours.
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While we adults can usually measure ourselves and the cell phone does not become the center of our world, it is often difficult for our children and teenagers to break away from the small screen. So many a child seems to have grown on the hand.
This is also why there are more and more schools in this country that do not completely prohibit the cell phone, but they are based on ban on mobile phone use on the school premises.
And that's not a bad idea like aReport from Policy ExchangeFrom Great Britain now shows. There were services of students who attended a school with a mobile phone ban, namely much better.
Mobile phone ban improves grades
A total of 800 schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland looked at a total of 800 schools. It was shown that only 13 % of secondary schools practice a strict ban on cell phones. At the beginning of the school day, the children are taken away from the cell phone or children are asked to lock their phones away for school. Breaks included.
Such a rigorous mobile phone ban pursues the purpose of bringing students closer to each other, i.e. strengthen their social interaction, but also to prevent distraction in class and to improve the opportunities for learning.
And lo and behold, up to two grades better were pupils in schools with a strict mobile phone ban on average. More than twice as often, they even got the grade 'excellent'.
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Europe discusses cell phone bans in schools
And the English are not the only ones who are increasingly struggling with cell phone ban. According to theGerman school portalHowever, around 80 percent of the schools are practicing a mobile phone ban in England, albeit with different hardness.
And even EU countries, including the Netherlands, France and Italy, have also banned cell phones strictly from class and school. In other countries, such as Austria, the Ministry of Education puts it in the hands of the schools, whether they want to make a ban or not.
Is a mobile phone ban in Germany realistic?
With us in Germany, voices are always voices that demand a binding mobile phone ban in schools. However, that seems unrealistic. On the one hand, lawyers order it, a ban is an interference with the personal and property rights of the individual.
On the other hand, the organization of education policy in Germany speaks against it. Because school policy is and remains a national matter. There will be no nationwide guideline, let alone a nationwide, legal mobile phone ban in schools.
However, school management itself can set up regulations to use the cell phone on the school premises. This means that a school cannot forbid its students to bring the phone to school, but it does, but also to use it in class and also during breaks.
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