WELLINGTON: New Zealand newly elected Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Friday that cellphones would be banned in schools across New Zealand.
AFP reported that New Zealand’s schools once bragged some of the world’s best literacy scores, but levels of writing and reading have decreased to the point that some scholars fear there is a classroom “crisis” in the country.
Christopher Luxon declared he would bar cellphones at schools within his first three months in office, approving a policy trialled with mixed results in the United Kingdom, United States, and France. The act would halt troublesome behavior and also help students focus, the PM said.
New Zealand will Ban Cellphones in Schools: Report
In a statement, the Prime Minister said that they are going to bar phones in schools across the country. He added that they want their kids to learn in classroom. He added that the teachers must teach to the students in schools.
Researchers in New Zealand warned of a “literacy crisis” in 2022, concluded more than one-third of 15-year-olds kids could barely write or read. They suggested that the measures should be taken to address this issue in New Zealand. Luxon’s government, sworn in on Monday, has been stuck in storm during its first week in power. The country’s doctors warned New Zealand faced a looming public health “disaster” after the government unpredictably scrapped world-leading tobacco control steps that aimed to ban the sale of cigarettes to any person born after 2008.
Luxon has also pledged to restart offshore oil and gas exploration in the country, scrapping one of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s signature climate change plans.
