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

London headteacher, Andrew O'Neill, is today introducing a 12-hour school day from 7am to 7pm in a bid to help with children’s ‘phone addictions’.
Students will use this extra time to participate in extracurricular activities and are provided breakfast and dinner. Should we extend the school day to break kids' phone addiction?
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[@mathewharris5865]

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

[@CosgroveNotts]

Poor staff😅

[@mariewalmsley6143]

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

[@CravingSolitude]

Clearly doesn’t understand how addiction works.

[@MissEmmaD]

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

[@FinnZT]

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.

[@Srslym8]

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

[@cgh08443]

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

[@SonicXGaming1]

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

[@nyashasaunyama2570]

Basically after school club

[@85catnip]

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.

[@user-is7nd5wz1d]

Adding onto my previous point, this headteacher and his rules are so unreasonable and inconsiderate.

[@saminanadeem2576]

Cheap childcare, that's why it doubled

[@gillianessien7417]

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

[@lacey7025]

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

[@Alyssaa_..]

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

[@user-dq7eq8xt5r]

Oh he'll no

[@johnanderson8385]

stop outsourcing parenting to school

[@I_DNT_KNOW_WHO]

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

[@ShadowClanTopG]

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