{"id":30524,"date":"2026-11-11T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T05:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/no-smartphones-in-pockets\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T12:29:47","slug":"no-smartphones-in-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/no-smartphones-in-pockets\/","title":{"rendered":"No Smartphones in Pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From September 2027, stricter rules on smartphone use in schools will come into force. Pupils will not be allowed to keep their phones in their pockets or school bags. The government is preparing to introduce tougher restrictions on mobile phone use in schools.<\/p>\n

Under the statutory guidance that came into force in June, schools are already required to provide a phone-free environment. However, the existing rules do not clearly specify how teachers should enforce this requirement.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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The Education Secretary, Lucy Powell, said that schools are places for learning and friendship, \u201cnot scrolling\u201d. She outlined the government’s plans to ensure that classrooms are truly phone-free.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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At the same time, critics of the new rules warn that their effective implementation will require significant funding for schools. They have called on the government to provide teachers with the resources they need to enforce the new restrictions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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A teacher is one of the people in a child\u2019s life toward whom genuine gratitude can last for years. But precisely for that reason, a question arises: where does sincere gratitude end and staging begin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,483,221],"tags":[511],"class_list":["post-30524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-in-the-world-en","category-international-news-en","category-news-en","tag-511"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30528,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30524\/revisions\/30528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaforedu.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}