Results: Half of parents 'want mobile phones banned in schools'!
Published on 08/31/2019
Just under half of UK parents, 49%, think their child's school should ban mobile phones, a survey by price comparison site uSwitch suggests.
One in eight parents said their child's school had already done so. The survey, carried out by Opinium on behalf of uSwitch, suggested that the average cost of gadgets taken to school by children was rising.
Extrapolating across the total population of UK school pupils, uSwitch estimated that the value of all gadgets taken to schools in 2019 will reach £2.3bn.
Plus, 43% of children now have a newer model of phone than their parents, and in total adults are spending £13bn every year on phone bills racked up by their offspring.
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Do you think that mobile phones should be banned in high-schools?
Yes
58%
1761 votes
No
22%
673 votes
Undecided
20%
592 votes
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Some experts have argued that mobile bans prevent children from learning how to "self-regulate" their use of electronic devices such as smartphones. Do you agree/disagree with this statement? Agree
30%
905 votes
Neutral
35%
1045 votes
Disagree
36%
1076 votes
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3.
Do you think that next generation of high-school students will have minimal skill of writing on a paper as most of them use their computers to type their class notes? Yes
82%
2472 votes
No
18%
554 votes
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