In the midst of a social debate about the use of cell phones by adolescents, with thousands of families organized in WhatsApp and Telegram groups to delay their children’s access to these devices; the Minister of Education, Anna Simó, will be pronounced this Wednesday in Parliament on the issue. He will do so by responding to the parliamentary group of Togetherwho will ask Simó about the reasons for their “inaction” in the face of the problem. This will happen the day before the celebration this Thursday, the 9th, of a extraordinary plenary session of the Barcelona Municipal School Council (CEMB) to debate the matter.
“Due to escalation and centrality What is he taking these days? debate on the regulation of cell phone use“-in his words-, the CEMB decided extend the call to all its members and transform the monographic debate session scheduled for this Thursday into a extraordinary full and change its format from ‘online’ to face-to-face session; as EL PERIÓDICO has learned.
When asked repeatedly so far this year, Minister Simó has always responded that her position is contrary to the prohibitionbut that this issue should fall to the centers, after working on it with the entire community, appealing to the autonomy of the center since they are decisions that must be debated“do not impose yourself from the top down.”
Along these same lines, after the CEMB this Thursday, the ‘department’ itself has called a School Council of Catalonia (CEC) for next week to debate the same issue, the big topic at the beginning of this course, which began with the prohibition by numerous Catalan institutes of the use of mobile phones as they were overwhelmed by the situation.
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In fact, one of the most repeated criticisms in the hundreds of groups that are being created in neighborhoods, towns, regions and provinces of families concerned about the issue, demanding that the Administration itself take action on the matter is one of the ideas more recurrent.
At the beginning of October, given the trickle of institutes that signed up for regulation by their own decision, Simó announced a debate on the matter in all centers. “Before the end of this year all the institutes will have had a debate on the use of mobile phones in the centers. We already have the data on how each center is regulating the issue. We will analyze them and at the end of October or beginning of November we will start a debate level of territorial councils in which questions will be raised such as ‘would you ban cell phones?’, ‘why?’, ‘would you regulate them?’, ‘how?'”, Simó then detailed.