The National Party in New Zealand wants to stop students from using cellphones in schools if it wins the elections in October. Christopher Luxon, the leader of the party, said this is a way to improve the low grades of students in the country.
Recent years have shown that school performance is going down, and official data revealed that 15% of students leaving school last year didn’t have any qualifications. Last month, a report from the UN also said that cellphones make it hard for students to focus and learn well in 14 countries, including New Zealand.
Luxon believes that banning cellphones is a smart way to help students learn better. He said that feedback from parents and teachers and research show that phones distract students and make it difficult for them to do well in school.
However, the Secondary Principals Association disagrees with this idea. They think it won’t work and isn’t needed. While some schools might be doing well without cellphones, others might need them for teaching and learning.
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big well done to Hayden, congrats to him, sucks that the britland took the 1st, quite sad, but that part of the game, wish we won though, well done to GB and everybody else, New Zealand deserved it.
2028 LA Olympics here we go!!
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Good job Hayden you gave it all you had
Amazing, I can’t believe we got silver, maybe we can win the Olympics if we try hard! Go boy!
Hayden must have showed a lot of the Olympic values to help Alex across the finish line
Hayden must have trained a lot to win a silver medal for us