Dalton McGuinty thinks kids should have cellphones in classrooms
Dalton McGuinty wants to lift a ban? What is this, opposite day?
Premier McPrude—a man who has banned everything from pesticides to pit bulls to cellphones in cars to smoking—has become the unlikely defender of cellphones in high school classrooms. Currently, the TDSB has a policy against the use of all hand-held electronic devices during class time. McGuinty claims that “Telephones and BlackBerrys and the like are conduits for information today,” and that we want the generation of the future to be well informed. Cue Whitney Houston.
Not to sound too crotchety, but we kind of think the current system makes sense. Smart phones in the hands of teenagers will mean non-stop texting, Bieber downloading, Facebook updating, porn perusing and presumably a lot of LMFAOing at the naive politico who actually thought this was a good idea (that is, @Dalton_McGuinty).
• Allow cellphones in classrooms, McGuinty says [Toronto Star]
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Courtney Shea is a freelance journalist in Toronto. She started her career as an intern at Toronto Life and continues to contribute frequently to the publication, including her 2022 National Magazine Award–winning feature, “The Death Cheaters,” her regular Q&As and her recent investigation into whether Taylor Swift hung out at a Toronto dive bar (she did not). Courtney was a producer and writer on the 2022 documentary The Talented Mr. Rosenberg, based on her 2014 Toronto Life magazine feature “The Yorkville Swindler.”
