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Originally Posted by Chris
Teachers act in loco parentis at school ... In other words they are responsible to care for children as a reasonable parent would. In reality, they almost certainly already have the right to do this with mobiles if the circumstances justify it, just as they never lost the right to use reasonable force against children where justified.
The reason the use of force has been enshrined in statute, and I suspect the reason this measure is now proposed to be, is to take a stand against those parents who have a chip on their shoulders about their own school days and are prepared to resort to Law to deal with the school rather than supporting the school's attempts to deal with their children.
The DPA was never intended to prevent child bullies from being caught and disciplined and if that is inadvertently now the case then frankly that is insane. Nobody would suggest the DPA should be used to stop a parent dealing with unacceptable use of a mobile phone so there should be no justification for it being used against a school which is acting with the same duty of care s a parent.
If new statute law is required in order to prevent schools being prosecuted under the DPA whilst dealing with cyber bullying and associated issues, then I'm all for it.
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That's interesting Chris ,i thought that the child act 1989 removed the 'in loco parentis' bit but on further checking it doesn't it actually re-inforces it ,so as such yes i agree that teachers ,or at least the head of school already has the right to examine content of a childs phone given just cause
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Originally Posted by Gary L
If anyone agrees that 'teachers' should have the power to go through a persons phone, and delete what they want to. then that says a lot about that person.
if I was a pupil I'd pin protect the phone. let them beat me till I give in.
I'd put pictures of my sister in it too.
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As has been said above by Chris whilst at school the teachers are the parents and have the same rights in most matters ,this new bill will remove any confusion and re-inforce the authority of teachers .