{"id":30417,"date":"2019-03-14T09:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=30417"},"modified":"2019-03-14T09:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T13:47:13","slug":"quebec-will-not-follow-ontarios-lead-and-ban-cell-phones-in-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/quebec-will-not-follow-ontarios-lead-and-ban-cell-phones-in-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec will not follow Ontario&#8217;s lead and ban cell phones in class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec Education Minister Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roberge says he has no plans to follow Ontario&#8217;s lead when it comes to banning cell phones in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in September, primary and secondary students there will not be allowed to have them in class.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario&#8217;s Education Minister says the devices &#8220;distract from learning&#8221; and that in a recent public consultation, 97 per cent of respondents supported a ban.<\/p>\n<p>Roberge is a former elementary school teacher. He says he doesn&#8217;t want to interfere in the classroom on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not my plan to take a decision and to impose my plan with smartphones. I think it&#8217;s a decision that should [be made by] teachers and principals,&#8221; Roberge said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Ontario decision, many critics have warned the Ford government that its plan will be ineffective and nearly impossible to enforce.<\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-30418\"><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">DR<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec Education Minister Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Roberge says he has no plans to follow Ontario&#8217;s lead when it comes to banning cell phones in classrooms. Starting in September, primary and secondary students &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":30418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3539],"tags":[3563,199,5100,4720],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Starting-in-September-primary-and-secondary-students-in-Ontario-will-not-be-allowed-to-have-them-in-class.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}