3p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 – Cellphone use in schools is no longer a problem for principals.
President of the Barbados Association of Principals of Public Secondary Schools Parents Winston Crichlow says students seem to be complying with the school rules.
“Cellphones in schools is apparently no more a problem. It seems to me that parents for the most part have complied. I have not heard of a single case where the rule was infringed,” he says, commending the parents for their efforts in this regard.
“We are not naive. There may be a few students in school today who have cellphones hidden away in their bags and we want them to stay there and not use them in school. We don’t have the manpower to do all the searching every day. We want people to act responsibility”, he says.
Earlier this year Minister of Education Ronald Jones said cellphones were to be banned in schools from September. He said were proving to be a disruptive influence in schools, and pinpointed situations where cellphones were used to record acts of violence and sexual activity which were then sent to the Internet.
The minister at the time had chided parents for “spending large amounts of money on the latest piece of cellphone technology they can find”.
