Teachers given power to confiscate mobile phones to keep disruptive pupils in line

Teachers will now be able to confiscate the mobile phones and iPods of students in order to control disruptive classroom behaviour. Education Secretary Michael Gove reckons that the new proposals will put a check on classroom troublemakers. The new proposals give teachers the power to confiscate the possessions of their students and also forcibly remove them from the classroom if they indulge in unruliness.

Teachers will have the ability to physically restrain boisterous children without fear of legal actions and also give out detentions without the 24 hours notice. Measures such as these will be introduced in an Education Bill which will be introduced this year. There have been many instances involving mobile phones in the recent times where pupils used the devices to record videos of staff and other students and posted them in the internet.

Strict disciplinary measures will hopefully curb such behaviour in the future. The Daily Mail quotes Mr Grove as saying that apart from giving teachers the right to “remove disruptive children from the classroom with out fear of legal action”, the Bill will give them the ability to “search pupils for weapons, and items like iPods and mobile phones, and confiscate them.”

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