Denmark announces plan to ban smartphones at schools

We have decided to give government’s support to this idea, says education minister Mattias Tesfaye

By AFP
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February 26, 2025
Children using smart phones. —Unsplash/File

COPENHAGEN: Smartphones will be banned at schools under new legislation proposed in Denmark, the education minister announced Tuesday.

“We have decided to give the government’s support to this idea and that’s why we are starting to prepare a change in the law,” Mattias Tesfaye told the Danish daily newspaper Politiken.