Gerard Melgar Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Tuesday, January 30, 2024-13:19
Education The State School Council approves a proposal to ban cell phones in all schools and limit them in high schools
Generalitat Catalonia studies banning cell phones in classrooms
Catalonia will start the next school year with restrictions on the
use of mobile phones
.
Primary Education
students
(
ages 6 to 12) will not be able to bring
phones
to classrooms, while in
Secondary Education (ages 12 to 16) their use will be limited:
they
must be turned off except when teachers allow it to carry out academic activities.
The Generalitat has today approved the rule that regulates the use of
smartphones
in all centers, which until now acted autonomously. It is estimated that half of them had already implemented protocols for the use of the terminals and a quarter had vetoed it. In the press conference after the weekly meeting of the Government, the Minister of Education,
Anna Simó
, reported that the instructions have been sent to all educational centers, which must now communicate how they will deploy them starting in the 2024 academic year. 25.
The decision comes after, last December, the
Education Council of Catalonia
(higher advisory body of the Department of Education) approved a document in which, after more than thirty debates with all the agents involved, it was decided to restrict the use of
mobile phones
. The report recommended that
Primary be "a
mobile
-free stage
" and that there be more restrictions in
ESO than in
post-compulsory
education
(
Baccalaureate
and
Vocational Training
). In this stage after Secondary School, free use of the
mobile phone
will not be possible
during school hours, but it will be possible outside of school hours following the center's rules.
Along the same lines, last Thursday, the
State School Council
unanimously
approved a recommendation to prohibit
cell phones in all
Infant
and
Primary
classes
and apply restrictions in
schools
for
ESO
students
. Several autonomous communities have implemented measures in this regard in recent months.