I’m sorry, but this whole “it’s unfair to deny kids the use of personal technology in class” is darkly hilarious to me. I did, in fact, try coding on my TI-85 in English class because I was bored, and it was immediately taken. Why is a phone more acceptable?
It wouldn’t have been taken if left in my backpack, so any “well, what about an emergency?” arguments are disingenuous. Put your phone on silent; refrain from using it. This is not phone time. In an emergency, parents calling the school was effective with primitive '90s technology. Surely, they can still do that now.
Excuse me; I need to go yell at a cloud.
Prohibits protests. Rember when Eby was a civil rights advocate?
Read the article, this is about preventing adults from protesting on school grounds, not outright banning protesting.
You think transphobic protests should be allowed to stand on school grounds making kids and teachers uncomfortable?
I just read the bill, article is wrong.
edit: I read the bill, its here: https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/bills/billscurrent/5th42nd:gov22-1
It specifically focusses on protests on school grounds, or protests that impede access to schools. Thats it. Where does it mention other kinds of protest?
If we want to know whether or not digital devices should be allowed in schools, why don’t we ask the folks in the Silicon Valley. They must know it, and have been telling us for years:
In the heart of Silicon Valley is a nine-classroom school where employees of tech giants Google, Apple and Yahoo send their children. But despite its location in America’s digital centre, there is not an iPad, smartphone or screen in sight.
What were the protests about?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-ban-protests-outside-schools-1.7170029
from the article:
Eby says the province has counted 18 major disruptions at schools across the province since the start of the school year, and several more before September, including demonstrators banging on classroom windows at a school in Burns Lake.
“[It’s] concerning, frightening, alarming and it makes school feel like a not safe place,” he said.
Eby said all of the incidents the province has counted involved demonstrators against SOGI 123 — the province’s optional educational resource for teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity — but said the law is content-neutral and will be applied equally regardless of the cause.
