France to tighten mobile phone ban in middle schools
by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris from Technology | The Guardian on (#6WH7K)
Pupils to be separated from devices for entire school day from September after trial of digital pause' scheme
France is to tighten its ban on the use of mobile phones in middle schools, making pupils at the ages of 11 to 15 shut away their devices in a locker or pouch at the start of the day and access them again only as they are leaving.
The education minister told the senate she wanted children to be fully separated from their phones throughout the school day in all French middle schools from September.
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