What is the “complete digital break” envisaged in colleges by the Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet ?

La ministre de l’Éducation demande à expérimenter une pause numérique au collège. Unsplash

Will college students soon be forced to leave their cell phones at the entrance to the establishment?? This is in any case what the Minister of the Interior is considering ;Education Nicole Belloubet.

This Sunday, April 7, Nicole Belloubet, guest of France Inter, spoke about a " full digital break" in colleges. What does it consist of ?

"The impact of social networks on young people is catastrophic", she said. rsquo;first declared. If officially, cell phones are prohibited in college, students can nevertheless keep them with them. "We see that images taken in colleges are circulating on social networks", she argues.

An experimental phase envisaged ?

"I wonder if we shouldn't proceed as in the Council of Ministers: you leave your phone at the door. entrance to colleges", says the Minister of Education. So, college students would be deprived of their telephones " for 8 hours" from the sixth.

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Leave the phone at home ? Or set up a deposit system ? For the moment, no announcement has been made. But for Nicole Belloubet, this "requires to be experienced" from the sixth. In mid-January, Emmanuel Macron had already announced a "screen plan" in order to "take back control of screens which too often confine where they should release" , recalls BFMTV. The Head of State was considering in particular determining "the proper use of screens for our children in families, at home and in class."