The ban on cell phones at state schools is being extended to older age groups in Saxony. Since this school semester, private cell phones have already been taboo at elementary school. Minister of Education Conrad Clemens has now announced that the rule will be extended to older pupils up to the eighth grade.
"I can extend this cell phone ban at state level. I will do that," said the CDU politician in the podcast "Thema in Sachsen" by the "Sächsische Zeitung" and "Leipziger Volkszeitung". The newspapers reported that the extended ban on cell phones would apply from the coming school year after the summer vacations.
Clemens sees the ban as an addition to a social media ban for children up to the age of 14, which is also being discussed. "And I think it goes quite well together: A social media ban until the age of 14. And at the same time a ban on cell phones up to the eighth grade," he said.
