France to ban phones in schools

(from altpress.com)

It turns out France will be banning students from using phones in the country’s elementary and middle schools, The Guardian reports.

The Guardian explains that students will be allowed to bring their phones to school, but will not be allowed to use phones until they leave school for the day.

“Sometimes you need a mobile for teaching reasons…for urgent situations, but their use has to be somehow controlled,” Jean-Michel Blanquer, the French education minister, explains. “It’s good that children are not too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of seven.” (MORE HERE)

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