Right now, pupils in French middle schools must turn off their phones. The experiment takes things further, requiring children to hand in their phones on arrival. — AFP
PARIS: Tens of thousands of pupils in France are going through a slightly different return to school this autumn, deprived of their mobile phones.
At 180 “colleges”, the middle schools French children attend between the ages of 11 and 15, a scheme is being trialled to ban the use of mobile phones during the entire school day.
