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Re:France Bans Smartphones in Schools Through 9th Grade. Wil... by baud147258 on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:48AM (#18038167)
> I fail to understand why a national law was necessary.

If I understand right, the law was necessary to allow school to enforce such a rule.

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Re:France Bans Smartphones in Schools Through 9th Grade. Wil... by remify on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:59AM (#18038212)
No they could already.

It's more an attempt to stop nitpicking and move on with the question.

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Re:France Bans Smartphones in Schools Through 9th Grade. Wil... by ElBarto on Friday September 21, 2018 @05:05AM (#18038250)
If a school needs a national law to tell children not to use smartphones in class then I'm thinking that the problem isn't smartphones...
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