QUEBEC — It's the final bell for cellphones in Quebec classrooms as the province's education minister plans to ban the devices in most teaching settings, calling them a distraction for students.
Bernard Drainville said Wednesday he intends to bring the issue before the provincial cabinet, with a directive going out to schools"as quickly as possible" thereafter. It would then be up to the schools themselves to enforce the rule, the minister explained.
"Cellphones are taking up more and more space in the lives of our young people," the minister said at a news conference."What we want is for our children to be 100 per cent concentrated in their classes." Federation president Josée Scalabrini said at the time that teachers wanted to reduce distractions in the classroom and were increasingly concerned about being filmed without their knowledge.
But Karen Littlewood, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation — the union that represents English-language public high school educators in the province — says the rule has had little effect.
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