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Headmaster tries to push through 12-hour school days | LBC callers react
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11:07Now PlayingNick Ferrari spoke to Headteacher Andrew O'Neill and these callers as a London school introduces a 12-hour school day to tackle smartphone addiction.
The headteacher at All Saints Catholic College in Notting Hill, west London, said he wants his students at school from 7am to 7pm to help them break the cycle of going home to be on their phones.
Instead, Andrew O'Neill said he wants his pupils to take part in extra-curricular activities like dodgeball, basketball, art, drama and cookery classes to fill the extra time in a healthier manner.
Mr O'Neill told The Times that smartphones were making Generation Z into apathetic and anxious, adding that he had seen "some of the most shocking things I have ever seen" on devices.
This breadth of content included sexting, pupils blackmailing eachother and cyberbullying.
The 900-strong cohort were stopped from carrying phones on their person because their faculty was worried for the impact on kids' social skills.
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