Mobile Phones (Panic Phones), Training in SA school Security Shake-up

Adelaide/Now ^ | 06.27.2008 | LUCY HOOD

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HIGH school teachers will be issued with emergency phones and new teachers will be trained to handle problem students under new school security measures.

Education Minister Jane Lomax-Smith told a Parliamentary Estimates hearing today it was part of the Government's $10 million plan, funded from 2007, to manage students' behaviour.

Under the initiatives announced today:

MOBILE phones will be provided to secondary teachers on yard duty so staff or police can be called immediately in the event of a security incident.

THE Anti-Bullying Coalition will advise Government and non-government schools on the use of technology including mobile phones in violent incidents.

AN extra $1.1 million for security fencing at six more schools at risk of after-hours arson and vandal attacks.

"Any issue that impacts on the safety of schools can impact on the quality of students' learning," Dr Lomax-Smith said.

"Under this new program, the first priority is to train teachers who are in their first five years on the job."

They will take part in workshops before trialing new approaches in their own classroom."

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This is an Australian story and sounds like it could have been in the USA. Forty years ago you did not have this scale of a problem.

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Is this the “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing? ( Just wondering.)

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How do government schools resemble prisons?

Let me count the ways! I will certainly add “security phones” and “security measures” to my very long list.