France considering mobile phone ban for French high schools

France considering mobile phone ban for French high schools
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday revealed plans to extend the mobile phone ban from middle schools to high schools, Anadolu Agency reported.

“We removed phones from middle schools. We will likely extend this to high schools next school year,” Macron said, speaking to readers of Ebra group newspapers in the commune of Mirecourt, in northeastern Vosges.

He reaffirmed that Education Minister Edouard Geffray “is currently looking into this.”

When asked to reassure the French about “foreign interference and political disinformation,” Macron declined to offer “empty reassurance,” emphasizing the need “to keep a bit of concern” as the country faces “a moment of major upheaval and uncertainty.”