Phones, tablets and smartwatches will be mostly banned from classrooms in the Netherlands from 1 January 2024.
Devices will only be permitted if they are needed for the lesson, for medical reasons, or for people with disabilities.
"Even though mobile phones are intertwined with our lives, they do not belong in the classroom," said education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf."Mobile phones are a disturbance, scientific research shows. We need to protect students against this." Mr Dijkgraaf said schools could manage the implementation of the ban themselves but laws would follow by the summer if results are not good enough.
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