France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools

Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by imgabe on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:56AM (#15915016)

Would it not be possible to have a box at the front of the room that everyone has to put their phone in when they come to class, then they can get it back after class is over?

If anyone's ever been in a secure facility, they have little mail slots, sometimes locking with a key you can take, to store your phone while you go inside. Seems like we could just put one of these in every classroom. That should take care of the liability issue.

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Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by irrational on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:07PM (#15915541)

Then kids would just bring two phones. The real phone and a dummy phone.

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Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by ctrl-j on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:06PM (#15916045)

Seems like it'd be pretty easy to enforce this one. A teacher will still catch students on their phone, and then it goes in the box with the dummy phone. Plus punishment for sneaking a phone in.

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Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by amigoingtodie on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:17PM (#15915616)

We used to call them 'lockers'.

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Re:France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle... by brewdad on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:51AM (#15930102)

And those lockers were not at all secure, at least in my HS. There is no way I would encourage my kid to leave his phone in his locker. He'd be on his 3rd or 4th phone of the year by now.

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