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As a precautionary measure, the Senate Wednesday banned the use of mobile phones in schools and colleges

This text, which is part of the Grenelle 2, must be considered in the Assembly.

Family associations, parents and teachers worried about the excesses of its utilization: a survey by TNS-Sofres on Tuesday, when 73% of 12-17 years has a 47% of students buy champions resources and 54% receive calls during class.

“In kindergartens, elementary schools and colleges, the use by a pupil of a mobile phone is prohibited,” states the measure passed by senators who also pointed to 14 years the threshold for advertising ban for laptops for children that the bill the Government had set at 12 years.

Parents and teachers for its ban during the course
According to a TNS Sofres / Le Parisien published on Tuesday, but they insist on having an example to be observed by teachers.

The Minister of National Education has also said in favor of banning cell phones during class, but stressed that it was within each establishment. Luc Chatel, speaking on RTL radio, said that the decision was “board schools, the rules of procedure.

Rules of Procedure which “shall specify the prohibitions and sanctions”, said for his part the Secretary General of the national union management staff of National Education, Philippe Tournier. For example, it shows a disturbing phone may be confiscated “for the duration of a course. However, we have no right to confiscate it until the end of the year.”

The same tune …
As for parents, the Federation of Parents CIPF (listed at left) and Peep (listed at right) are favorable to what students cut their mobile phone to the hotel entrance and did rekindle that According to the exit. They insist on prior awareness of students about it, and the fact that teachers “lead by example by cutting as their portable classroom.

For Beatrice Barraud, president of Apel, the association says 815,000 families together Catholic teaching, “the phone is not part of the package and the student is forbidden to use it during class but also during inter-course and recreation.

Side teachers, Christophe Digaud, national secretary of Sgen-CFDT, said the answer “can be educators’, citing the development of rules with students. “It is obvious that the students’ mobile phones must be switched off during lessons, and teachers do the same thing, but I think between courses, they can do whatever they want.”

However, the Peep, where it is satisfied the Senate vote, one finds that the decision would be impractical. Indeed, as the President of the Peep, Philippe verandas, “the Senate can do all possible laws, but how will we do? In a majority of colleges, domestic regulations already prohibit the use of mobile phones, and Yet the students use them.

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