What do you think of the incident in Honghe, Yunnan, where a teacher forced students to throw their mobile phones?

On December 1, a video of three students from Mingjiu Town Middle School in Mengzi City, Yunnan Province, who brought their mobile phones to school and was forced to smash them by their teacher, aroused heated discussion among netizens. That night, the Mengzi City Education and Sports Bureau issued a notice stating that the video posted online was authentic and that the teacher involved’s inappropriate methods when educating students aroused social concern. The teacher suspended classes for investigation and comforted students and parents.

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Are primary and secondary school students prohibited from bringing smartphones to campus? The Ministry of Education responded

Recently, the Ministry of Education stated in its reply to Recommendation No. 4883 of the Third Session of the 13th National People’s Congress that regarding the proposal to “prohibit primary and secondary school students from bringing smartphones into campus”, the Ministry of Education A long-term network security mechanism will be established and improved with relevant departments.

Actively promote the revision of the Minors Protection Law, strengthen legal publicity and authoritative interpretation of the "Internet Protection" chapter, and ensure and guide minors to use the Internet safely and rationally. At the same time, we will intensify our efforts to further strengthen positive guidance, strengthen educational guidance on healthy Internet access and rational use of smartphones in primary and secondary schools, encourage schools in various places to actively innovate education methods and means, improve school facilities and equipment, and strengthen the Internet education for primary and secondary school students. and daily management of smartphone use. In addition, we will work with relevant departments to carry out special actions to control the online environment for minors to purify the online environment for minors. Strengthen family education guidance, give full play to the role of parents in supervision, and form an educational synergy.

The full text is as follows:

Reply to Recommendation No. 4883 of the Third Session of the 13th National People’s Congress

Jiaoji Recommendation [2020] No. 335

We have received your suggestion on prohibiting primary and secondary school students from bringing smartphones into campus. The reply is as follows:

Building a green network and guiding primary and secondary school students to surf the Internet reasonably and healthily are the key to strengthening the protection of minors. important content of human network protection. The Ministry of Education has always attached great importance to moral education in the Internet environment, guiding primary and secondary school students to surf the Internet reasonably and healthily, and achieved good results.

1. Strengthening policy guidance

In August 2018, the Ministry of Education, together with eight departments including the National Health Commission, issued the "Implementation Plan for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Myopia in Children and Adolescents" which clearly stated that it is strictly prohibited to Students bring personal mobile phones, tablets and other electronic products into class, and those brought into school must be kept under unified custody.

School education uses electronic products rationally based on the principle of on-demand. Teaching and assignments do not rely on electronic products. In principle, the duration of teaching using electronic products shall not exceed 30% of the total teaching time. In principle, paper-based teaching is used Operation.

During the period of "suspension of classes without suspension of learning", the Ministry of Education requires all localities to reasonably arrange online teaching time, control the duration of students' use of electronic products, scientifically and standardly guide students to use information technology products, and guide students to develop good learning and eye skills. Hygiene habits.

2. Strengthen Internet Literacy Education

In view of the phenomenon of students’ addiction to the Internet and irrational consumption, in school education and teaching, students are required to “understand the consequences of bad behaviors such as obsession with the Internet and electronic games” Hazards, resist unhealthy lifestyles", strengthen information technology teaching, recommend comprehensive practical courses such as "I am an 'aboriginal' in the information society" and "Introduction to Fun Programming" to guide schools in guiding students to use the Internet appropriately