Cell phones being banned in NSW public primary schools

Mobile phones might be banned from public primary schools across Nsw from this year.

The local government announced the get over it Thursday, using a review inside their used in classrooms.

“Mobile phones, unfortunately, aren’t only distracting but causing stress for children C and we can’t have that continue,” NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian told Seven’s Sunrise.

“We’re sending an extremely strong message to everybody that youngsters need to be protected.”

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The education department will give you guidelines to varsities about exactly how the ban will continue to work, but it is believed students just can’t can access phones through the day.

If there are actually special requests from parents they’re going to be kept somewhere for being accessed before or after school, Berejiklian said.

High schools should have the conclusion to opt-in towards ban.

Psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg, who led the review, said mobiles posed a risk to children.

“It’s all really about kids specializing in lessons, better socialising, reducing social media use and reducing online bullying and internet-based image abuse,” he told Sydney radio station 2GB.