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I don’t believe it has taken this long for the various Education Departments to acknowledge student access to their mobiles during school hours would be a major problem. Even those of us who don’t have kids or grandkids of school age are totally aware of how little tolerance today’s kids have to being told ‘no’, how everything must happen ‘now’, how poor their concentration span is, how social media rules their lives, and how poor their impulse control is.

Yes, access to mobiles should be banned during school hours and there is plenty of technology in the cyber world to prevent school computers from accessing unsuitable sites. This should not be a state by state decision to make, this should be compulsory in all state and private schools in the country

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I have never understood why private schools receive funding from the government. Wake up politicians, there are way too many Aussie kids reliant on handouts from charities through donations from the same taxpayers who are already providing funding for private schools. Why did we ever lose our free education system? Why do people who are earning more in 1 year than I could earn in 3 need their kids’ education subsidised?

It’s time to stop funding the privileged kids and provide this funding to the have nots so that we as a country don’t leave so many kids behind, pay teachers their worth, ban the use of technology of all types during school hours so that kids relearn how to think and solve problems for themselves. Engage our kids in learning like we used to be rather than having them skipping school and committing crimes to peak their interest. Give teachers back the pride they once had in their jobs when kids achieved their goals through interest and individual work rather than cheating with technology.

For a start, every private school seems to have their own private bus(es) on the road these days, whatever happened to hiring public transport? Try as you may you will never convince me this is a necessity for a better education, it is only an ongoing expense with continuing maintenance, registration, insurance, sign writing, fuel, and replacement vehicle costs for the school. Meanwhile public transport still runs but is not utilised as it should be, the use of which teaches valuable life lessons in itself.

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