{"id":50472,"date":"2023-10-02T19:51:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=50472"},"modified":"2023-10-02T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:51:11","slug":"ban-on-mobile-phones-in-english-schools-could-irk-teachers-and-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/02\/ban-on-mobile-phones-in-english-schools-could-irk-teachers-and-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ban\u2019 on mobile phones in English schools could irk teachers and parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41228\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kids-on-phone-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kids-on-phone-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kids-on-phone-360x203.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kids-on-phone.jpeg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">G<\/span>lyn Potts, head teacher at Newman Roman Catholic College in Oldham, could not hide his irritation at the morning headlines\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2023\/oct\/02\/gillian-keegan-plans-to-ban-mobile-phones-from-english-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">announcing a government ban on mobile phones\u00a0<\/a>in state schools in England. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/mobile-phone-ban-in-english-schools-smokescreen-to-mask-real-issues-say-critics\/ar-AA1hAwdN?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=05bf2d9fe4c14d4699ba430c9a4b61c5&amp;ei=48#image=1\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Glyn Potts, head teacher at Newman Roman Catholic College in Oldham, could not hide his irritation at the morning headlines\u00a0announcing a government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50472","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/kids-on-phone.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50473,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50472\/revisions\/50473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}