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France has to ban smartphones and personal tablets from schools. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly by 62-1 on Monday to students aged between 3 and 15 from even their devices to school. The ban part of a campaign to addiction to electronics. It a campaign promise by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2017. French Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer also for the ban saying devices were harmful to children's development. He mobile devices a public health crisis and said the law children from the "phenomenon of screen addiction and the phenomenon of bad mobile phone use."

The new ban a previous law made in 2010 that students could not use their devices in lessons. There are exceptions to the ban for students with disabilities and for using devices in the classroom for extra-curricular activities. Many lawmakers do not the ban is enough to about change. They the ban is little more than a publicity stunt. Application of the ban to students aged 15 and older will on the policy of individual schools. Experts have that the increased use of mobile devices cyber-addiction, sleep disruption and bullying. Opponents of the ban say it a backward step and will not to an increase in learning.

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