Jenny Gilruth made the suggestion after she said headteachers in Scotland would be “empowered” to ban mobile phones from their classrooms if necessary.
Scotland’s Education Secretary has suggested MSPs could “engage better” by not using mobile phones and other electronic devices “all the time” in Holyrood.
But former modern studies teacher GIlruth made clear recently that she would “support any headteacher who decides to institute a ban on mobile phones in their school”. Speaking the EIS teaching union event, she said that people watching Parliament debates and committees would see “routinely MSPs – and I include myself in this – sit on their electronic devices”.
That was later lifted and Gilruth revealed one of the current deputy presiding officers had said that MSPs “don’t debate any more in the Parliament,” but instead have “reading out contests”.
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