{"id":7097,"date":"2023-08-09T06:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2023-08-09T06:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T18:04:27","slug":"national-wants-to-ban-phone-use-at-school-to-fix-declining-achievement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7097","title":{"rendered":"National wants to ban phone use at school to fix declining achievement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The National Party has vowed to ban students from using their phones at school if elected, but it will ultimately be up to schools themselves as to how such a policy is enforced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It would bring New Zealand in line with Australian states which enforce such rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Luxon today announced National wanted to \u201cturn around falling achievement\u201d by eliminating \u201cunnecessary disturbances and distractions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He would do so by banning the use of phones at schools for the entire day, including breaks between classes, with the expectation they would be \u201coff and away all day\u201d. It would apply to primary, intermediate and secondary schools.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__ad-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ad ad-container has-text ad-rectangle tw-mx-auto\" data-test-ui=\"ad\">\u201cSchools will be able to decide exactly how they enforce it, but it could mean requiring students to hand in their phones before school, or leave them in their lockers or bags,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cParents can contact students via the school office, and exceptions for students with health conditions or special circumstances will be permitted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Those special circumstances included students whose phones aided learning challenges and those who needed their phones for health purposes.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-media\" data-test-ui=\"article-media\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Party has vowed to ban students from using their phones at school if elected, but it will ultimately be up to schools themselves as to how such a policy is enforced. It would bring New Zealand in line with Australian states which enforce such rules. Luxon today announced National wanted to \u201cturn around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7099,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions\/7099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}