• 783 Mobile Phones Could be Banned for Children in the UK

  • May 26 2024
  • Length: 13 mins
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783 Mobile Phones Could be Banned for Children in the UK

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  • #newthought #learnenglish #podcast #news Full transcript: http://teacherjoseph.com/2024/05/26/the-uk-government-could-ban-mobile-phones-for-children-transcript-of-podcast/ Extract: Well, our Government is examining whether it can ban people from using mobile phones. It's currently considering removing the right to use a mobile phone from people under the age of 16. Now, of course, as I've told you in many other podcasts, our Government love to play the role of a parent because our parents here don't really like to make decisions for their children. And there’s a news story here saying that our Members of Parliament (MPs), our Government, are demanding that phones are removed from those under the age of 16. Now, of course this is highly controversial. Many parents are very against this but I think everyone's agreed that some action needs to be taken. Since parents don't like addressing these kinds of issues, As usual, they look to the Government to fix it. Recently, when the Government introduced a smoking ban, people were scratching their heads saying, “well, you know, is this really democratic? Can we take away people's choices”? And equally removing smartphones from a bit of society there's all kinds of question marks there about whether this is the Government's responsibility and also what role the parents will play. So let's read through a news story here. It says: “Children under the age of 16 should be banned from having smartphones and going on social media”. It says: “the Commons Education Committee warned that the next Government must introduce stronger guidance, and controls to curb kids time online”. To curb, that simply means to try to maintain, to guard, to fix or the best one to use is to contain. Youngsters' screen time has risen by 52 percent in two years. And they're saying here: “current guidance does not go far enough and recommended a complete ban on mobiles in schools for under 16s”. Now, there’s big debate about this. But what's really surprising for me is the way in which we always expect the Government to do something. So if kids are failing at school. People will say oh well I mean the Government has to do something about this. This is terrible. If people are smoking too much, people will say, oh well, you know the Government has to do something. If people are eating too much and dying because of obesity, People are saying oh well, you know the Government needs to fix this and do something. We seem to have lost the ability to make individual choices. And we expect everything like this to be managed by the Government, of course, our Government react by giving us things to think about but in return they will expect us to vote for them and it keeps them popular. I think what we really need are for some people to guide us on these points. Preferably people who don't care about ego. And maybe care more about for example, in this case, children's education. The more we look to the Government to make choices for us, the more we lose our individuality And we're kind of getting to a point where I'm thinking, well, should we really be looking to the Government for this? Because the more we look to the Government, The more perhaps they can take control of other issues.
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