Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses
Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them.
Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was announcing what she called the country’s most comprehensive ban on the devices.
It is not a policy statement. The same day, the department’s director general Jay Peckitt issued an instruction to every public school principal in the state. It takes effect on 12 October, the first day of Term 4.
What the instruction actually orders
The CEO Instruction is short and unusually specific.
Principals must stop students and staff wearing, using, charging or storing the glasses on school premises. The same applies at any school organised event or activity. The charging clause matters, because it closes the locker.
Principals must also bar parents, carers, visitors and contractors from bringing the devices onto school grounds at all. The instruction says the ban should...
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