Children start their day at Bogaerts International School near Brussels by putting their smartphones in a locker. “If we catch them on a phone, we confiscate it and give it back at the end of the day,” said school principal David Bogaerts. Hundreds of schools in Brussels and the southern Walloon region of Belgium are set to follow the foundation’s example. Over the summer, the new government of the French-speaking Walloon community announced plans to ban smartphones in elementary schools as well as the first three years of secondary school, according to a Politico report. Many schools, however, are not waiting for the plan to be finalized before moving forward with their own bans. The trend is not only in Belgium. The Netherlands has banned the devices, and education ministers in France and Ireland said last week they were also considering it. Banning smartphones in the classroom seems like an easy fix amid growing concerns that the devices […]
Source: News Beast
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