FRANCE’S phone-addicted children will be obliged to do without their mobile devices at school under a bill the education minister called a “detox measure” to combat classroom distraction and bullying.
President Emmanuel Macron, whose Republic on the Move party holds a commanding majority in the National Assembly, hopes for a speedy passage through parliament, in time to impose the blanket ban before the next academic year starts in September.
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