The school year that begins in much of Spain will bring the ban and limitation of mobile phones in classrooms, already applied in several communities, but it will also launch the plan to strengthen mathematics and language and prepare its secondary students for the new EBAU, yes, with the recurring challenge of reducing teacher interim and ratios.
After the National School Board unanimously approved in January the veto of mobile phones in primary school and its limitation in high school, the educational community has continued to debate the problems of the use of mobile devices and this course will be the first in which they apply. from the start of the university year.
The Community of Madrid, Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia and Extremadura already had bans or restrictions and, after the approval of the School Council’s text, the others began to implement measures, giving the centers the freedom to apply them and granting greater freedom to the elderly.
While Cantabria has established a total ban for both schools and institutes, betting that it will be the centers that arbitrate the control measures, communities such as Madrid or Castilla-La Mancha are making the use of mobile phones more flexible in secondary, baccalaureate and professional training.
In Catalonia, for example, it is considered a good learning resource in secondary school, but it is not allowed in primary school.
Similarly, in Aragon, Andalusia, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands or Navarre, teachers have the power to confiscate and turn off students’ phones until the end of the school day.
