I honestly have no real opinion on this (yet), as I don’t know if that would help or not.
But 90% of all policy proposals from the UK end up being terrible ideas, so I’ll just assume this is stupid.
I wonder if there will be any unintended consequences to this action.
Well let you know, NZ’s new conservative government has just done this same thing.
Unintended consequences? Boost to low end mobile phone sales: kids will buy a shitty phone to surrender at the start of the school day.
America would call our conservative government, communists.
Yep, but it’s relative.
But then the USA shrieks “communism” about anything that could possibly negatively impact shareholder value.
In that regard they’re just our incredibly racist, sov. cit. brother that ruins family gatherings.
Seems like an obvious thing to do. Too bad we wasted a generation or two on this problem before waking up.
It’s so obvious that almost all schools in the UK were already doing it.
This is a non-solution that will have zero impact
It doesn’t really need to be legislated by central government though (like here in NZ).
It could’ve just been a directive from the ministry of education, or left to the schools themselves to decide.
We could just properly fund education, but that’s hard apparently.
Time and attention well spent.
E: I have to add an /s to that? Seriously? Who reads this and goes “That’s somebody’s real take!”
Bike shedding.
Let’s focus on this small but easily understood problem and hope that someone somewhere else is sorting out the big and difficult stuff.
Yeah sure. That’ll fix all the problems.
