Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey, and the Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet are calling on Keir Starmer to legally ban smartphones in schools, warning current guidance against allowing phones has created a “postcode lottery”.
And we are all supposed to acquiesce , because who could deny a bereaved mother anything?
She said a ban would have “solved so many issues” for her daughter, who was “sucked away from society and into the online world where she was at risk of so many harms”.
She didn't have a daughter, though. She had a mentally challenged son, and she allowed him to think he could trsnsition into a girl. So if she cannot be honest about that, why should anyone trust her on this issue?
The government has resisted banning smartphones in schools, insisting headteachers are able to take their own actions. It issued guidance in 2024 that “schools should develop a mobile phone policy that prohibits the use of mobile phones … throughout the school day, including during lessons, the time between lessons, break times and lunchtime”. But subsequent research among 2,467 secondary schools in April by the children’s commissioner, Rachel de Souza, found that while 90% had some restrictions on phone use, only 3.5% banned phones from school grounds and only 7.9% required pupils to hand in their phones for the whole day.
So they were given the freedom to action thisas they saw fit, and because they haven't been as strict as these people would like, that freedom must be stripped from them and central government must step in.
The new Phone Free Education campaign is calling for ministers to introduce a full legal ban including funding for schools to pay for a lockable pouch or similar alternative.
How about 'No'...? In fact, how about 'Fuck off!'?
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