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Canada Threatens to Ban Mobile Phones in Classrooms
Filed in archive Mobile by jeff goldman on August 15, 2007
Canada Threatens to Ban Mobile Phones in Classrooms

The Montreal Gazette's Roberto Rocha today looks at the inevitable implications of rogers wireless' announcement earlier this week that they're introducing a $5-a-month MySpace Mobile service that gives users full MySpace access on their mobile phones.


Teachers' union president Serge Laurendeau says drastic measures may have to be taken. "The only thing we can do now is ban phones from classrooms completely," he says.


"Released during the commercially frenzied back-to-school season, this promotion comes at a time when schools are scrambling to stem cyberbullying," Rocha writes. "Students today can easily and discreetly capture videos and pictures in the classroom and make derogatory comments on blogs and social networks like MySpace and Facebook. Eleven students were suspended from a high school in Caledon, northeast of Toronto, for sexually explicit, derogatory postings about a principal made in February. Weeks later, students at two Montreal schools were caught targeting teachers on Facebook."


"I don't think Rogers is really smart for doing something like this," Laurendeau warns. "If schools decide to ban phones, Rogers will be affected by it."


Rogers Wireless, of course, passes the buck to the parents. "It is obviously a discussion students have with their parents before signing up for a service such as MySpace," says Rogers spokesperson Odette Coleman.




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