Parents and teachers are slating the Government’s plan to spend €9 million on smartphone pouches for schools. As part of the ‘Keeping Childhood Smartphone Free’ initiative, schools will offer mobile ...

At Avondale Middle School in Oakland County, students must lock away their smart phones into a pouch that they carry for the day but is sealed with a magnetic device at the start of school.

The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has branded the Budget allocation of €9 million for mobile phone pouches in secondary schools as "a terrible waste of public money." Speaking in Co ...

What are these smartphone ‘pouches’ being introduced in schools? And how do they work?Opens in new window ] And yet, the announcement in Budget 2025 that €9 million is to be provided to fund ...

Schools have said the €9m set aside for mobile phone pouches in Budget 2025 would have been better spent on the “more significant and biting” problems they face. The decision to allocate the ...

“No pouch is going to be forced on any school, forced on any principal, forced on any child, but Minister for Education Norma Foley and the government have quite rightly worked with schools and ...

Spending €9 million on ‘smartphone pouches’ for children will improve their academic results, Norma Foley has predicted. As part of Budget 2025, the Department of Education has announced ...

For everyone who needs it. THE PROPOSAL TO spend €9 million on locked phone pouches for secondary schools has been branded “grotesque, inexcusable” and a “pet project” by opposition parties.

Teachers have branded the €9 million spend on mobile phone pouches for schools a ‘bizarre waste of money’. The funding for the ‘Keeping Childhood Smartphone Free’ initiative was ...

Budget 2025: Government allocated €9 million in the Budget 2025 to helping keep students off phones during school Audience members lock their phones in pouches before a comedy show in New York.

It was announced in Budget 2025 that €9 million is to be provided to fund efforts to keep students off their phones during the school day, including the provision of secure pouches to store the ...