Mobile phones in schools?
Questions are being asked as to whether mobile phones should be banned from schools. Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw believes that they can be used for cyber-bullying and accessing inappropriate material online, as well as them having a distracting effect on pupils when they go off during lessons.
Mr Wilshaw used to be a headmaster and did ban pupils from bringing phones in to school.
Not allowing any pupils to have mobile phones in school would be a matter of child protection – both from the aspect of online child protection and also safeguarding children.