‘Digital pause’: France pilots school mobile phone ban

Tens of thousands of pupils in France are going through a slightly different return to school this autumn, deprived of their mobile phones.

Right now, pupils in French middle schools must turn off their phones. The experiment takes things further, requiring children to hand in their phones on arrival.

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