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Ontario School Boards Sue Social Media Companies for $4.5B
Five major Ontario School Boards have filed a $4.5 billion lawsuit against Snapchat, ByteDance and Meta, which collectively targets popular social media platforms TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, for allegedly “rewir[ing] the way children think, behave, and learn, leaving educators and schools to manage the fallout,” as stated in a press release.
BC's New Phone Ban
On Jan. 26, at the District Education Centre in Surrey, BC Premier David Eby announced the restriction of mobile phones in public schools “from bell to bell” across the province, along with two other social media measures to protect Canadian children.
EDITORIAL | “Nomophobia”: Teachers Weigh in on BC’s New Phone Restrictions
On Jan. 26, Premier David Eby announced a “bell-to-bell” ban on phones in schools, citing “online dangers” and unsupervised content consumption. The Editorial Board surveyed a few Hamber teachers for their views on the new restrictions, which will ostensibly be taken into account by the VSB when they develop their new district-wide policy.