There will no longer be a cell phone on in schools and colleges in France from the start of the 2018 school year. It was a promise made by Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign, Jean-Michel Blanquer, the Minister of National Education has announced this Sunday, December 10 during the “Grand Jury” RTL-Le Figaro-LCI that this measure would come into force next September.
The telephones must therefore be switched off as soon as the pupils enter the premises of the establishment and no longer only in the classrooms. Last September, the minister had mentioned “lockers that close” in which the phones would be deposited, an idea which had encountered objections of a material nature.
A question of public health
“We are working on this issue for the modalities,” said Jean-Michel Blanquer. “Sometimes you need the telephone for educational purposes (…) for emergencies, so they have to be somehow confined”, explains the minister, recalling that some colleges “already manage to do it”.
For those involved in education, the laptop is indeed a problem in schools. Its excessive use interferes with good learning, recreation instead of oxygenating the brain, many people prefer to play video games on their phone. Without forgetting the problems of cyber harassment.
According to the Minister of National Education, limiting the use of screens is a matter of public health and also concerns families. “It is good that children are not too much, if at all, in front of the screens before the age of 7,” he says.
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