Greece announces new rules banning mobile phones in schools from September
The new regulations and system of penalties are an extension of rules education minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis announced in March which saw pupils face expulsion for filming classmates and ridiculing them online in a bid to clamp down on cyberbullying.
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00:00Students in Greece will be required to keep their mobile phones in their school bags at
00:06all times during lessons when the new academic year starts in September.
00:11The new regulations were announced on Saturday by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
00:17The academic data on how the use of the mobile phone during the day at school affects the
00:25preparation of the lesson is negative.
00:28From the lack of attention to other important issues, it is clear that the mobile phone
00:36does not have a place in the school during the day.
00:42Under the new rules, pupils who don't comply will be excluded from school for one day.
00:47In the case of a repeat offence, teachers have the power to remove pupils from lessons
00:51for several days, and anyone filming their classmates or their teachers without permission
00:56could face expulsion from school.