I begged my son’s school to ban smartphones. Every parent should do the same |
10 March 2025, 16:00
By Andy Preston
Yesterday, I wrote to my son’s Head Master asking him to ban smartphones at the school.
This was a selfish act to help my son. But for the sake of all children’s welfare, we urgently need a total ban in every school.
Teachers and schools are too relaxed about the ubiquity of these harmful devices and that tolerance is a massive barrier to children’s progress in learning, sports and socialising. The damage being done is huge – and potentially irreversible. British schools are categorically neglecting their responsibility to educate and protect.
Of course, parents have a big role to play in their children’s online habits, but what kids do at home is a separate issue - we entrust our schools to educate and protect our children. Futures are being compromised by unsupervised internet access. Even the strictest parents’ children are impacted when their peers have smartphones at school.
It’s obvious that children........