Students shun phone checks

STUDENTS have rejected calls for parents to check pictures on their children’s mobile phones but accept all phones should be banned from the classroom.

In response to demands for tabs to be kept on teenagers’ phones, Union of Secondary Students president, Emer Ní Chuagáin, said mobile phones were people’s personal property.

She said: “It would be counter-productive if parents can’t trust their children. Schools and parents shouldn’t assume all children are using phones for the wrong reasons.”