Approved on Thursday by the Portuguese government of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, the ban on the use of mobile phones in primary schools and junior high schools will also cover schools that are run by the Catholic Church – the Ministry of Education of this country specified on Friday.
On the basis of the new regulations, approved in the form of a government decision, both in more than 100 Catholic educational institutions and in other private schools, students will not be able to use mobile phones. Originally, in May and June, representatives from the Ministry of Education, as well as members of the government, suggested that only schools included in the public education system could cover the new law.
The prohibition was replaced by a limitation
In 2024, the authorities of the Ministry of Education of Portugal only recommended the restrictions of students to students through school management. In turn, during the spring of this year, Prime Minister Montenegro announced that his government would introduce restrictions in the use of mobile phones by students at primary schools in the basic and junior.
The introduction of new regulations was preceded by research among school heads about the relationship between persecution of students by their colleagues and the use of smartphones. The document made available by the Ministry of Education to the media, shows that in more than half of 230 lower, junior high and secondary schools, in which in the 2024-2025 school year there was a ban on the use of students of smartphones by students, there was a “significant” decrease in cases of persecution.
The Netherlands wants to limit the access of children to social media
The Netherlands in turn wants to ban the use of social media for children under the age of 15.
At the same time, the authorities are planning to introduce age restrictions in access to social media under the recommendation, not a legal provision, according to the Dutch public nose.
According to the station, the directive will also contain a proposal to ban smartphones in schools and recommendations with regard to the time that is spent before the screen by pre -school children. Details are not yet known.
Parents and scientists in the Netherlands recently appealed to the departing government to limit the use of smartphones and social media by children and teenagers.
At the same time, more than 1400 Dutch doctors, scientists and experts wrote an open letter in which they suggest that children receive their own smartphones at the age of 14 at the age of 14 and access to social networks from the age of 16.
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