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Schools across England are set to become phone-free by law under new government plans. The move aims to cut distractions, improve behaviour and reduce social media-related harm during the school day.
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00:00Bannon.
00:01Well, we did all right without them, didn't we? I've only just got one. I've never, I'm...
00:07I'm in my 70s and I've never had a mobile phone.
00:10That's a hard one. So...
00:12I'd say yeah, but I'm a different generation again.
00:15I would have, but when my son was in high school, he was bullied terribly.
00:22Erm, and now I fear that, like, cos my daughter's going to high school,
00:26I'm like, she needs a phone on her just in case she needs me.
00:28In school, no, there's no reason to have them in the classroom.
00:33No, I'd say.
00:35I mean, I don't have...
00:36When I go to work, I don't use my phone at all.
00:41Back in my day, I sound like me mother.
00:43Back in my day when I was at school, there were no phones.
00:47I...
00:47I think it's probably made me more streetwise.
00:52Erm...
00:53It's good you can't trust anyone these days.
00:55It's not like it was, like, 15, 20 years ago.
01:00It's not like it was.
01:01Yeah, there wasn't the social media thing.
01:03Friend of mine, her granddaughter was in school and a friend was there,
01:11and she texted a friend for talking in the conversation,
01:16but she was there, so she could have...
01:18I think she would do bands all together.
01:20Yeah.
01:21You're not looking, you're not learning.
01:23Well, you are learning, but it's a phone.
01:25You need to be listening to the teacher.
01:27Especially my son.
01:28My son's a teacher.
01:29So...
01:29So...
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