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 ...

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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.

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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 ...