Media storm for a 15-year-old

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Vincent Duguay does not believe that his case will go before the courts, but said to have already received offers of pro bono service of lawyers.

Dominique Scali

Thursday, January 18, 2018 12:41

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Thursday, 18 January, 2018 23:09

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It is after his friends had lost their jobs or had marriage problems what a 15-year-old has chosen to give notice to the school board about the confiscation of the cell at his school.

“I have a friend who was working on call and who lost his job after his phone was confiscated,” said Vincent Duguay in the Journal.

The teenager has attracted the attention of many media Thursday after having sent a notice Wednesday to the commission scolaire des Rives-du-Saguenay, arguing that part of the code of life of its schools is unconstitutional.

“I never thought it would be such a public outcry,” says-t it.

At the école Charles-Gravel in Chicoutimi, students who are caught using their cell phones in class can be confiscated for a period of 24 hours. Vincent Duguay wants to change this regulation and believes that other ways of cracking down would be more reasonable.

It has never been robbed of its own device. However, some of his friends have already had marriage problems after a seizure. “There are young people who are possessive “, he explains. He believes that the prohibition in the classroom is legitimate and necessary.

Up to the police

The confiscation of cell phones outside of class hours is a common practice in the schools of Quebec, have confirmed seven school boards.

A lot of the parents are even ok with the ban, and seizure, but others are also part of the problem, according to the Fédération québécoise des directions d educational institution (FQDE).

Parents even go so far as to call their child during class, tells the president Lorraine Normand-Charbonneau.

She remembers a parent who had gone to the police station to retrieve the device from its child, that she had confiscated for a month.

The school boards that responded to the Journal had never received any formal warnings or complaints relating to these forfeitures.

Still, some cases were rendered before the small claims Division when a device is confiscated, had been lost or stolen, ” said the lawyer Rémi Bourget.