{"id":14687,"date":"2017-09-29T20:03:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T03:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=14687"},"modified":"2019-01-17T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T03:10:10","slug":"victoria-bc-high-school-bans-cellphone-use-says-its-gone-very-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=14687","title":{"rendered":"Victoria, BC high school bans cellphone use, says it\u2019s \u2018gone very well\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/span>Bradly Shankar<\/a><\/p>\n

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SEP 28, 2017 \u00a08:09 PM EST<\/p>\n

A Victoria, British Columbia high school that banned the use of cellphones is saying that the move has been very effective so far. The\u00a0Central Middle School, which is part of the Greater Victoria School District and has 580 students, introduced the ban back in September. \u201cIt\u2019s sort of surreal \u2014 you come into the building and there are no phones around,\u201d Central principal Topher Macintosh told Times Colonist. He said that only two phones have had to be confiscated since classes resumed this school year. There are a few exceptions; students who need to contact family after school are allowed to use their cellphones, although these are kept in the office during the day. \u201cIt\u2019s gone very well in a lot of ways,\u201d Macintosh said. \u201cWe knew we wanted that change, but we didn\u2019t think it was going to be that challenging to implement in the building, and it really hasn\u2019t been. The parents have been great. There are a handful of kids who get accommodation and that\u2019s running very smoothly.\u201d He added that staff members are also behind the new policy. \u201cThey\u2019re coming in and saying: \u2018This is fantastic \u2014 my phone isn\u2019t on my mind all day,\u2019\u201d he said. A pair of University of Victoria researchers has been looking into the merits of cellphone banning beyond Central Middle School. The idea is to find out how the bans affect students and just how effective they can be. \u201cWe\u2019re asking people to fill out their cellphone usage, and then we\u2019re trying to use that information to look at how that affects outcomes,\u201d Sam Liu, one of the UVic researchers, told the\u00a0Times Colonist.\u00a0\u201cSo their friendships, their attention, their academic performance, as well as their leisure activities.\u201d Liu says the survey will continue until the end of March 2018, with results expected to come by April or May. Students can complete the survey here,\u00a0which is said to take under 20 minutes to complete. Those who take part will be entered to win a $200 online Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n

Read more at MobileSyrup.com<\/a>: \u00a0\u00a0Victoria, BC high school bans cellphone use, says it\u2019s \u2018gone very well\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Bradly Shankar SEP 28, 2017 \u00a08:09 PM EST A Victoria, British Columbia high school that banned the use of cellphones is saying that the move has been very effective so far. The\u00a0Central Middle School, which is part of the Greater Victoria School District and has 580 students, introduced the ban back in September. \u201cIt\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,6,23,318,44,355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ban-on-phone-in-school","category-cellular","category-school","category-teenagers","category-victoria","category-victoria-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14688,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14687\/revisions\/14688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}