{"id":200239,"date":"2026-08-24T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/200239\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:33:08","slug":"france-to-ban-mobile-phones-in-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/200239\/","title":{"rendered":"France to ban mobile phones in high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"912\" height=\"607\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"html-img h-auto w-full\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0cc7877d-phone-class-040723-afp_1024x681.jpg\"\/>Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said the ban could take effect as soon as the new school year begins. (AFP pic)<br \/>\nISTANBUL: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said he is enacting a law banning mobile phones in high schools starting with the new school year, Anadolu Ajansi reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cProtecting children from the excesses of screens can no longer wait,\u201d Macron said on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">\u201cA school without phones means reclaiming the serenity of learning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said earlier on Monday that the ban could take effect as soon as the new school year begins following Macron\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The legislation, aimed at protecting minors from risks associated with social media, was passed on July 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Its flagship provision, which sought to ban social media for children under 15, was blocked by the Constitutional Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Bregeon said the mobile phone ban in high schools would nevertheless take effect under a \u201cstable, consolidated and legislative\u201d legal framework.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu will work on a new version of the social media provisions that takes into account the Constitutional Council\u2019s concerns, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"py-1.5 mb-4 text-lg\">The government aims to establish a revised legal framework to protect children and young people by next spring, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon said the ban could take effect as soon as the new school year begins.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[125],"tags":[39438,34045,41001,242,245,6791,89523,69981,89524,89525,9233,5976,48574],"class_list":["post-200239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-emmanuel-macron","tag-children-online-safety","tag-constitutional-council","tag-education-policy","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-french-government","tag-french-schools","tag-high-schools","tag-maud-bregeon","tag-mobile-phone-ban","tag-screen-time","tag-sebastien-lecornu","tag-social-media-ban"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117151217007749679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}