Geneva Bans Mobile Phones in Secondary Schools

This school banned cellphones six years ago. Teachers — and many kids — couldn’t be happier.

By SAM GAUNTT SAN MATEO, Calif. – On a cool Friday morning in April, the halls of California’s San Mateo High School were full of students chatting, running to class or trying to find their friends. But one common sight in high schools across the country was and always is absent from the halls of San Mateo: cellphones. “When you look at the crowd, kids are not buried in their phones,” said Yvonne Shiu, the school’s principal. “They have grown to…

Geneva bans mobile phones in secondary schools

From the beginning of the new school year on August 18th, students in public schools in the Swiss canton of Geneva will no longer be allowed to use smartphones on school grounds.

This school banned cellphones six years ago. Teachers — and many kids — couldn’t be happier

This is part 19 of a series by the Local News Network at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Mobile phone ban to apply to public and private schools

The Minister of Education, Fernando Alexandre, has clarified today that the ban on mobile phone use will apply to students in the first and second cycles of education, who attend both public and private schools.