France cellphone ban takes effect as kids return to school without devices

French children say "Bonjour" to the new grade - and "I remember my phone" during class

This is because new laws are in force and students under the age of 15 are prohibiting the use of the phone. While this bill follows the president's promise of French President Emmanuel Macron, he also abandons tablets and smart watches.

The French Department of Education said in a statement that this ban was also implemented during emergencies and during breaks except for children with disabilities. In an emergency, the student can ask the teacher or superior to permit use of the mobile phone. At the same time, high school can voluntarily implement this measure.

Education Minister Jean - Michel Blanquer said the new regulation is designed to help children focus on the curriculum, become better sociable, and reduce the use of social media. This ban is also aimed at preventing battle with online bullying and preventing theft and violence at school.

According to Agence France-Presse, Blanc calls the law "the law of the 21st century", which improves the discipline of 12 million students in France.

"Opening future technologies does not mean we need to accept all of those applications," Blanquer said in June, the bill passed the Diet.

According to Agence France-Presse, supporters say that nearly 12% of the French people between the ages of 12 and 17 have mobile phones and this prohibition may limit the spread of violence and pornography I will.

According to ABC News, as a law enforcement agency, administrators of individual schools decide how to enforce the ban. The principal may decide whether to store students' mobile phones in lockers or backpacks. By law, teachers can confiscate calls until the end of the day without observing the regulations.

Jacqueline Kay - Cessou was an American living in Paris for 25 years and David, a 14 - year - old son, graduated from CamilleSée International School in the eighth grade.

"This is good news, this is what I've been thinking over the years," Kay-Cessou told ABC. "I think that cell phones are socially harmful, children can not think or sit anymore, they are very addictive."

Mobile phones are forbidden in some or all of the schools both in and outside of the U.S., but in France there are scarcely anything planned. New York City banned the use of student mobile phones at public schools for 10 years, but from the desire to allow parents to contact child's complaints, we ended the unbalanced rule in 2015. There is evidence that improving academic performance improves by prohibiting the use of these devices. According to a survey conducted by researchers at the London School of Economics, between 2001 and 2011, the score of the standard test of 91 children's 16-year-old children rose when imposing a cell phone ban . Studies showed that this improvement is equivalent to the additional time of school improvement per week when the ban was implemented severely.

When French students returned to school in the academic years from 2018 to 2019, many people were unable to attend classes with smartphones this autumn. The French parliament has passed a law that prohibits students under the age of 15 from bringing furniture to school this summer, or at least closes within classes. According to Agence France-Presse, the goal is to eliminate phone addiction and ensure that students can focus on studying in the classroom. Schools around the world are increasingly reporting such prohibitions. In this article, world famous educators view a counterintuitive view of these behaviors and offer different approaches. He is former Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture Secretary Pasi Sahlberg and currently is a professor of educational policy at Gonski University of Education at New South Wales University in Sydney.

Schools are prohibited from using smartphones. This is why they should not - and what they should do -

As Canadian children return to school, doubts continue to divert the greatest attention facing today. There are personal mobile devices in the classroom. Some people think mobile phones are essential and complementary educational tools, others think mobile phones are tragedy. The fact that the education sector has not reached an agreement on this issue is obvious in the deception of related policies. In some cases, individual schools do not even have consistent mobile phone usage rules that allow teachers to attack each other.