Italy wants to ban fully for cell phones in all schools from September – Diepresse.com
Mobile phones are also to be banned for teaching purposes, says Italy’s Minister of Education Valditara. He can imagine a ban on Europe.
From the new school year in September, Italy wants to ban cell phones in the classrooms of all schools. The use of mobile phones should also be banned for teaching purposes, emphasized Minister of Education Giuseppe Valditara, according to the media, emphasized. According to Valditaras, Italy supports the introduction of a Europe -wide mobile phone ban in schools. Smartphones have a double negative effect on the psycho-emotional development of young people and education.
The use of smartphones, among other things, leads to « difficulties of concentration and memory and even problems with the development of imagination, » explained Valditara. A cell phone ban has been in effect in Austria since May 1st in Austria.
The Ministry of Education in Italy has been called « Ministry of School and Merit » in October 2022 since the legal government took office of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Meloni thus signals that performance in the Italian school system should count more in the future.
