Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson ordered full-day mobile phone ban in England schools.

Here's the unpopular bit: the phone is not the villain, it's the alibi. A headteacher can wave new guidance, but if lessons are dull and corridors are brutal, pupils will find a screen, a whisper, anything to escape. Fix the boredom, fix the bullying, then enforce the rule, otherwise you are polishing the lock while the house burns.

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