The B.C. Cellphone Restriction

By Luca Crema Black

Phones give access to un-regulated content on the internet, and in the school setting, they distract students from learning. The BC Ministry of Education will start restricting phones at school in September 2024. Few details of the ban have been confirmed, but there are two likely contingencies:

  1. The mandate will restrict phones from the bell-to-bell schedule. This will deny access to phones in class, but during breaks, students will have access to their phones.
  2. Students will have access to phones during certain learning activities, which must be authorized by teachers.

If teachers have the authority to allow phones during learning activities, the restriction could have an extremely slight change. Currently, without the phone restriction, many teachers operate their classroom with a policy similar to this. Students are prohibited from using phones, but a teacher can give permission to use devices during learning activities. If there is not a total ban on phones, there could be little change from a phone restriction.

Phone restrictions will help students learn at school, but many argue banning phones will not teach students how and when to use them. Phones are an integral tool throughout our life. By banning phones at school, students never develop habits for ignoring phones during work periods. On the contrary, by allowing phones, students can be distracted by them. A key challenge in effectively restricting phones is enforcing the ban. Phone restrictions have already been mandated and lifted in Ontario. Currently, Ontario has a phone restriction. In January of 2024, the TDSB passed a motion to reconsider phone ban policies, because teacher unions have said the current ban is not being properly enforced. Phone restriction policies are often difficult to maintain and have not been stable mandates; nevertheless, there is still a proven linkage between increased phone usage and decreased academic performance.

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