I have just started working in an independent partially boarding school.
A school policy is that year 7 and 8 are not allowed smartphones, or any phone with the internet or a camera. Parents and pupils are informed of this when they join the school. Despite this, I am repeatedly having to confiscate these smartphones from students when they are out on show.
I do not understand why parents do not just buy them a cheap £10 phone for use in school. The students are permitted to have phones in school, just not smartphones.
I would have thought most parents would see this as a fantastic opportunity to save a few hundred pounds. But the number of children with non permitted phones suggests otherwise.
Do the parents at my school simply have more money than sense?
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To not understand why parents buy their children expensive phones which are not permitted in school
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frogspoon · 19/09/2013 20:36
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