One of the pending tasks of schools is to try to control the use of smartphones within schools and institutes, something that is not easy, since children increasingly have mobile phones at an earlier age.
A well-known London high school will force its students to *change their smartphones for old Nokia brand terminals.
First-year students at Eton College will have to use older Nokia phones
A spokesperson for the prestigious London boarding school Eton College confirmed to Business Insider that they are planning to ban the use of smartphones among their first-year students and replace them with traditional Nokia phones, which are only used for calling and receiving and sending SMS.
“Eton routinely reviews our phone and mobile device policy to balance the benefits and challenges that technology brings to schools.”
This spokesperson assured the aforementioned media that, starting next September, all first-year students of this boarding school will receive an old Nokia terminal to use outside school hours. To compensate, these students will also be given an iPad “to support academic study.”
To understand this decision you should know that the Eton School is not just another educational center, since in this exclusive boarding school located on the outskirts of London studied well-known personalities such as Princes William and Harry, the former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom David Cameron and Boris Johnson and the actors Tom Hiddleston and Eddie Redmayne.
This is not the first measure taken by the Eton School to control the use of mobile phones in the center, since, in 2018, this boarding school approved a policy that forced first-year students to hand over their smartphones at night.
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