A British boarding school will make students use boring old Nokia phones

Loads of college districts have instituted smartphone bans for college students through the college day however a British boarding college has taken it one step additional. Wait, scratch that. They’ve taken it one step again.

Eton School, the historic and elite British boarding college with well-known alumni resembling Prince William and Harry, Ian Fleming and Tom Hiddleston, has instituted a brand new cell phone coverage for its first-year college students beginning in September. These college students should depart their smartphones at house however convey their SIM card to highschool and put it in an old-fashioned, offline Nokia mobile phone with a easy quantity pad that may solely make telephone calls and ship textual content messages, in line with CBS Information.

The British boarding college’s coverage is predicated on pointers from the UK authorities that permits principals to enact smartphone bans on college students through the college day.

Let’s hope no person tells college officers about Snake or these poor youngsters could have to really concentrate and be taught one thing.

Smartphone bans and pointers are beginning to seep into American college districts as nicely. Based on knowledge from Govspend, 41 states have a minimum of one college district that instituted a rule requiring college students to position their smartphones in magnetically sealed Yondr pouches once they go to highschool.

The Los Angeles Unified Faculty District handed a district-wide college telephone ban for college students in June that prompted California Gov. Gavin Newsom to name for the same regulation on the state stage.

In the meantime in New York Metropolis, town’s chancellor of public colleges David Banks stated he plans to institute a telephone ban within the coming weeks. New York Governor Kathy Hochul is working with the state’s legislature to go two new payments that may solely enable college students to hold telephones that don’t have entry web entry

Even Florida (sure, that Florida, the one which’s house to 10 million Florida Mans) has a statewide smartphone in colleges ban that additionally requires colleges to dam college students from accessing social media on its Wifi networks.