Daria Bignardi: Enough of cell phones in class: guys, it will be fun!

This entry is posted on number 37 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until 9 September 2025.

This year the school starts again with the “prohibition of using the mobile phone during the teaching activity and, more generally, during school hours”: circular no. 3392 of June 16. And I bet that the students will find themselves well. Maybe at the beginning they will struggle, they will feel strange and remote, but then they will get used to and begin to pull cards, copy from the companions and not from the AI, steal the snacks, chat in class, flirt on recreation, smoking hidden in the bathroom, in short, all those fun things that were done at school once. It will end that they will find themselves so well that they will forget to rekindle the smartphone when they come out. They will rekindle him under the house, with a little resignation, to make bullies with parents. Sorry only for the professors, who from this year will have one more burden. And how will they do? Will they put cell phones in a locked locker how do you do when you enter (do prisoners leave them in the serial number, visitors in concierge) in prison? I suggest soave firmness, they can say: “It’s the fault of the minister.” Like when I said: “Big Brother decided that …”. It gives satisfaction to evoke a higher power, especially for fun. Here, they should put it on as if it were a game: “Let’s make you were without cell phone and had to talk to you, listen, be careful.”

Games have iron rules, if not what games are they? When smartphones appeared I at the table I was playing the game of the cage: “Children, do we make the cell phones in a cage while eating?”. I was negligible from the rest of the family, but I didn’t have a ministerial circular on my side, and look at what happened to. For libertars against the prohibitions: do you remember when you could smoke in the cinema or by plane? Don’t tell me it wasn’t nice to get out of that toxic and stinking cloud, at least for a few hours, even for smokers. Minister Valditara, prohibit it to me too!

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