“It is incredibly embarrassing that the key finding from this second and politically motivated parliamentary inquiry undermines Labor’s only semi-genuine education policy.
“This political stunt has blown back in Labor’s face after their star expert said a blanket ban on mobile phones in high schools is arbitrary, redundant and lacks evidence.
“Chris Minns is clutching onto a policy that yet again has no detail, it has changed multiple times since the announcement and has no support from education stakeholders.”
The public failure of their mobile phone policy makes it the latest of their education policies to fall under scrutiny.
Earlier this week Labor’s education spokesperson Prue Car failed to answer questions to detail their key education policies and admitted to not costing billions of dollars’ worth of promises.
“Labor’s key election promise is scrapping the public sector wages cap, and they have admitted that they have not costed it,” Ms Mitchell said.
“This leaves parents in the dark about what will be cut from their child’s education so that Chris Minns can give a blank cheque to union bosses.”
The Committee took evidence from Jocelyn Brewer, an expert from the Centre for Digital Wellbeing who Labor are using to back their approach and leading the research into excessive mobile and digital screen time, who rejects an outright ban. Ms Brewer instead supports “empowering students to better understand how and when it is appropriate to use technology”, which is current government policy. [Source 2.28 of the Inquiry report]
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