Oz parents don’t want phone ban

In spite of some incidents of phone-based bullying, parents in New South Wales, Australia, don’t want schools to ban cellphones, Australian IT reports. In a six-month period to April this year, NSW government schools filed more than 25 reports to police about serious incidents [of violence] filmed by [students using] video-equipped phones.” Still, the education minister there said that “such cases were in the minority and that most parents wanted their children to carry phones with them for safety reasons.” The government, he added, had no plans to impose such a ban.