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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Miranda Bryant in Copenhagen

Rest of Europe should follow Denmark’s lead in banning phones in schools, says expert

A table of high-school students all holding mobile phones
Denmark’s wellbeing commission said children under 13 should not have their own smartphone or tablet. Photograph: Lbeddoe/Alamy

The whole of Europe should follow Denmark’s lead by banning mobile phones from schools to stop them from being “colonised by digital platforms”, the chair of the country’s wellbeing commission has said.

Removing mobile phones from schools gave young people a “pause” from online life, teaching them how to be part of analogue communities and train their attention spans, said Rasmus Meyer, who led the government commission to investigate growing dissatisfaction among children and young people.

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