Headteacher Extends School Day to 12 Hours to Help Children's Phone Addiction 

Clearly doesn’t understand how addiction works.

Poor staff😅

Might as well bring back the workhouse whilst your at it.

While good in theory, 12 hour days in school will likely cause burnout and cause an increase in mental health issues. Phone addiction needs tackling I agree, but extending school days is not the answer

More time away from family great..just a ploy to stop families being together, and building a strong family unit!

All this is gonna do is make kids gonna want to go on their phones more when they get home. The reason they do it is because they are tired after a day at school. They're gonna be even more tired if the day is longer and especially if it starts earlier. If anyone wants to disagree with me, please do. I'd be happy to engage in some sort of discussion regarding this topic.

Susanna makes such a lazy assumption here, that every schoolchild when they get home from school, goes up to their room and is on their phone the rest of the day. Simply not true. I didn't have the time to be on my phone when I got home because I was swimming in homework or revision for exams on top of the already 7 hour school teaching day. By all means if kids want to spend time after school doing extracurricular then happy days, but NO way should this be compulsory and just feeds into a narrative that schoolchildren are socially inept phone addicts. LAZY journalism

It totally bogggles my mind how many people write outraged comments on videos they clearly haven’t watched. I feel bad for this teacher - the media is purposefully misrepresenting the program for the algorithm

This is my head teacher :O he’s not making a good choice in my opinion

Adding onto my previous point, this headteacher and his rules are so unreasonable and inconsiderate. 1. My younger sister who is the year below me, was throwing up in school, told the teachers and they refused to call my mum. Therefore she texted my mum to tell her she was sick, and got her phone confiscated for 5 days. After all 3 adults in my household left their workplace to talk to the schools, they left with no phone and being spoken to in such a patronising manner by the headteacher. 2. After a fight was about to break off in my sisters year, I was the only person breaking it up, there were no teachers on the playground or in site, and they locked me in a room for over 3 hours without my school bag, and no work to do, and also my mum was not contacted. This was all because I was preventing a fight from happening, which also my sister was included and the teachers did not fulfil their duties. There have been so many other situations that have happened personally, to my sister and to my friends (who have all come to this school). The teachers are very unprofessional and literally scream at children over nothing, for example: - not wearing a blazer - wearing a coat inside (during winter) - talking in a line up - standing when eating - taking food outside - and so many more reasons. This headteacher really likes to portray himself as “the best headteacher of the year” yet he runs a prison and children hate this school and are treated like prisoners, speaking from experience and others experiences. He is putting on an act and forces this school to look how it does, when in reality it’s nothing like it.

Cheap childcare, that's why it doubled

Basically after school club

Nah, we won't let our kids get addicted, we actually want to spend time with our little humans and enjoy time together as a family. As soon as kids get home, wind down and have some fun, no homework as long as they're not struggling.... 6 hours of school is enough.

stop outsourcing parenting to school

Oh he'll no

What a waste of the 2nd man’s time this was haha, spoke for like 30 seconds

LOL of course parents will be supportive of schools solving this problem for them. More downloading of parenting they should be doing onto teachers.

Just to let people know, you are able to leave at any time youd like and it is OPTIONAL

Mr. O'Neill, thank you and your team for the excellent work.

And his gnna stay behind 24 hours of his planning this to happen we have right to say what we like

Nope I ain’t spending 12 hours in school. Never

Actually sounds quite good, can't be compulsory though

wonder why private school kids are ahead this is normal in private schools and always has been

NO NO NO NO!!!!!!

Parents laughing like

Approximately your children are over twenty years of age

We know why, really🤯

Better not be

It wont no cause they will go on there phones when they go home