Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus

When I was a teenager you weren't allowed to have a phone in class, some schools you couldn't have one all day but that was a rule imposed by the individual school. I'm not sure it is a law but it is the government that decided they are be banned on all schools, so it's nationwide policy now.

I don't remember phones being allowed in school ever

I took a look st the statistics, I presume you mean more people not going to traditional schools. There is no data published for 2024 yet, but there was a massive peak in 2022-2023, but this is attributed mostly to a big spike in immigrants coming to the Netherlands in that period too. Source (in Dutch)

I'm curious. Did this change in policy coincide with an increase in richtingsbezwaar filings?

@WaterSword @MrScottyTay

The bans in Dutch schools are not only during the lessons, which they always have been, but now fully during the school day, having to lock away the phones at the start of the day and unlock them at the end, meaning they can’t have them during breaks either.

The ban has been in place since January 1, 2024

When did phones no longer become banned in school?

Not a very surprising result. I'm guessing we're at the point where these bans are about to spread fast.

You need a study for this? lol

As if kids' futures weren't bleak enough, now you're going to make the poor bastards pay attention in school?