AS MORE SCHOOLCHILDREN face criminal charges in the beating of a 14-year-old girl that went viral on social media, a senior trade unionist says now is not the time to allow wide-scale cellphone use in schools.
Dennis DePeiza, general secretary of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB), said he supported the stand of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) and the Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) that current conditions did not support the move.
“With the prevailing climate within schools, where the maintenance of discipline and control are growing challenges for teachers, the decision to institute a mobile policy in schools is ill-conceived,” DePeiza noted.
He said while CTUSAB accepted there was room for technologies in schools, this should be for instructional purposes only. (GE/PR)
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