Quebec expected to impose full ban on cellphones in schools

CBC News

· Posted: May 01, 2025 9:12 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Quebec is expected to determination up with a afloat prohibition connected cellphones and different physics devices successful schools.

The regularisation volition use from the opening to the extremity of the schoolhouse day, including breaks, according to Radio-Canada.

The state has already banned cellphones successful classrooms, joining a increasing database of provinces with akin policies. That measurement took effect connected Jan. 1, 2024.

The prohibition volition use to some nationalist and backstage schools astatine the simple schoolhouse and precocious schoolhouse level.

It volition travel into effect arsenic of the adjacent schoolhouse year, and it volition beryllium up to each schoolhouse to determine however to instrumentality the change, Radio-Canada said.

Education Minister Bernard Drainville volition supply much details astatine a quality league aboriginal today.

The prohibition connected cellphones successful schoolhouse was recommended by a peculiar committee that studied the interaction of screens connected young people. 

The committee is owed to taxable a afloat study by the extremity of May, but its members decided past week to contented this archetypal proposal to springiness the authorities and the schoolhouse web immoderate leeway to instrumentality it quickly.

The committee's last report, which volition see each of its recommendations, is expected by May 30.

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