I got this comment by email: Hi Jackie. Interesting article as ever. You might want to check out @ProfJWR on Pisa results. We are often compared unfavourably with England but it appears that ours is more representative. If memory serves, roughly 42% of Scottish schools took part in the survey, whilst only around 4% of English schools did. Given the population discrepancy is roughly 10x in England what we have here, it is disconcerting that it was skewed like it was.
I think parents and individual headteachers are already discouraging phone use in schools. Anecdotally, my grandson who is still early years is in a year group where almost all the parents have signed up to a pledge of no phones at primary school. My friend’s grandson at secondary school, puts his phone in a wallet at the start of each day and retrieves it at home time to allay fears about a safe journey home.
I got this comment by email: Hi Jackie. Interesting article as ever. You might want to check out @ProfJWR on Pisa results. We are often compared unfavourably with England but it appears that ours is more representative. If memory serves, roughly 42% of Scottish schools took part in the survey, whilst only around 4% of English schools did. Given the population discrepancy is roughly 10x in England what we have here, it is disconcerting that it was skewed like it was.
I think parents and individual headteachers are already discouraging phone use in schools. Anecdotally, my grandson who is still early years is in a year group where almost all the parents have signed up to a pledge of no phones at primary school. My friend’s grandson at secondary school, puts his phone in a wallet at the start of each day and retrieves it at home time to allay fears about a safe journey home.