Eton, a British aristocratic boarding school, bans students from using smartphones and provides Nokia feature phones

This website reported on July 10 that a British boarding middle school will require students to use old Nokia mobile phones. This policy goes further than a simple smartphone ban.

1. Eton College, located near Windsor, England, requires first-year students to leave their smartphones at home during school.

2. In line with UK Government guidelines, headteachers have the power to implement a smartphone ban during school hours.

3. Freshmen at Eton College bring only SIM cards to campus and use the Nokia feature phone provided by the school which can only make calls and send text messages.

US school districts enact smartphone bans

4. There are 41 states in the US that have at least one school district requiring students to put smartphones in signal-blocking Yondr bags while in school.

5. The Los Angeles Unified School District has implemented a district-wide cell phone ban, prompting California Governor Gavin Newsom to call for similar laws to be implemented at the state level.

6. New York City Public Schools Superintendent David Banks plans to implement a cellphone ban in the coming weeks.

7. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul is working together to pass two new bills that would only allow students to bring cell phones without Internet access.

8. Florida has implemented a statewide smartphone ban in schools and also requires schools to block students from accessing social media via on-campus Wi-Fi.

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