As a child, Brianna gay Outgoing, happy and bubbly.
“She was always in everything,” said her mother Esther. “She was the life and soul of every room, you always knew whether Brianna was there.”
Still at the age of 14, two years Before she was murdered by two fellow teenagersHis behavior began to change to a great extent because his smartphone addiction began to be “negative effects” on his life.
Along with getting into trouble in school, Bryan, who was transgender, suffered with them Mental healthOne eating disorder And was self-loss, Ms. Ghee only realized after her death, how much harmful material she was consuming.
He has now launched An open letter is calling for a statutory ban on phone in schoolsIn a campaign, which has gained support from high-profile figures such as actress Kate Winslet, actor Stephen Graham and several MPs.
“We did all the right things,” he told Independent. “We put control of the parents on WiFi and her phone. When she was younger, I checked her phone and locked her at night.
“When she grew up, it became like a diary and she did not want to hand over it. We had a lot of arguments, we had arguments as to where she would finish to punch the wall because she did not want to hand over her phone.
“It was very difficult and as a parents I suffered a complete damage,” he said.
In February 2023, Brianna, then at the age of 16, the Kuleth Linear Park in Wournington was lured, where he was then stabbed 28 times with a knife hunting knife by Scarlett Jenkinson and AD Ratcliffe at both 15 at that time.
After her murder, Ms. Ghee requested information about the use of her daughter’s phone from Bryan’s old school -Birchwood Community High School.
It was discovered that Brianna was in Burchwood during three years, teachers had made 120 security logs and 116 behavior logs.
“From this Child sexual abuse is at riskShe was watching for food disorders that encouraged her to ban the food.
“The behavior log refused to see her phone under the desk, keeping her phone away and filming himself in the toilet for tickets.
“It was very difficult, I didn’t know how to manage it,” he said. “I worked with school on this, but none of us knew what to do.”
Emma Mills, Hedtekar in Birchwood, Phone pouch introduced last September Which means that the students stopped their phone on reaching the school.
The school also has measures to ensure that children are not bringing another phone, and use Velcro Pouch for children with health conditions or who are young careful.
“Improvements have been absolutely remarkable, for example this year they have recent GCSE results and have improved a large scale. Teacher has improved, children are focusing on the classroom and children are going to the promotion classes,” said Ms. Ghee.
This comes when labor faces put a new pressure to ban smartphones in schools, as they earlier said that there was no current plan to pass the law.
It is understood that ministers and Sir Kir Stmper believes that the headtackers already have the power to ban phone in schools, and they have rules.
Under the former Orthodox government, schools were issued non-constituent guidance to prevent the use of phone during school day.
Earlier this year, a survey by the commissioner of children has 90 percent of secondary schools and 99.8 percent of primary schools already have policies to prevent the use of phone during school day.
However, the survey found that about 10 percent of secondary schools allowed students to use their phones at some time during school day.
“there is Very harmful material out thereTeachers have told me about children’s matters that other children show hardcore porn, film videos, upload children and upload children on social media, causing harmful allegations or making them forward, male disciple teachers.
“It is just ridiculous. There is no place in schools for the phone and I think it is going to be in the form of small investment from the education department, but there will be a large -scale improvement in teachers and pupil goodness,” said Ms. Ghee.
However, he warned about a postcode lottery whether school can invest in the financing of phone pouches.
“If a school cannot tolerate it, the headtechers have told me that this is an option between a new staff member or pouches and they will do without children. It concerns me that it is those that are those who are in more deprived areas that will go without going,” he said.
In her open letter, which has been addressed to the Education Secretary Bridget Philipson and Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper, she calls for a statutory ban that sees students unable to reach her phone for the entire school day, unless they exempt from the reasons for medical or access.