{"id":83042,"date":"2019-06-25T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83042"},"modified":"2019-06-25T06:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T10:28:29","slug":"the-age-mobile-phones-to-be-banned-in-victorian-state-primary-and-secondary-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83042","title":{"rendered":"(The Age) Mobile phones to be banned in Victorian state primary and secondary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phones will be banned from Victorian state primary and secondary schools under strict new rules aimed at tackling cyber bullying and distractions in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Victorian government has adopted one of the world&#8217;s toughest stances on mobile phone use in schools and from the start of next year, students must switch off their devices and store them in lockers during school hours.<\/p>\n<p>Students from prep to Year 12 will not be allowed to use their phones during recess and lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>Victorian Education Minister James Merlino said teachers and parents regularly raised concerns about mobile phones&#8217; effect on students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/victoria\/mobile-phones-to-be-banned-in-state-primary-and-secondary-schools-20190625-p5217a.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Victorian government has adopted one of the world&#8217;s toughest stances on mobile phone use in schools <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gpoEnDIBKB\">https:\/\/t.co\/gpoEnDIBKB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Age (@theage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theage\/status\/1143464202079756288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phones will be banned from Victorian state primary and secondary schools under strict new rules aimed at tackling cyber bullying and distractions in the classroom. The Victorian government has adopted one of the world&#8217;s toughest stances on mobile phone<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83042\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,204,101,111,168,177,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-australia-nz","category-children","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83045,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83042\/revisions\/83045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}