It’s designed to make pupils concentrate on their lessons and reduce cyberbullying.

France is the first major country to introduce a total ban on cellphones in schools.

It’s a campaign promise being kept by President Emmanuel Macron.

His Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer calls it a law for the 21st century – a law to address the digital revolution.

He says Being open to technologies of the future doesn’t mean we have to accept all their uses.

Ninety percent pf  French students aged 12 to 17 own a mobile phone. 

Under the new law, they’ll have to keep these in their book bags.

Critics say it won’t stop classroom disruptions and will do little to address cyberbullying. 

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