From connection to isolation

Banning mobile phones, laptops and tablets from school premises is a genuinely good move, if it actually gets children talking to each other again. The Ministry of Education has spelled this out again in a school guide for primary education ahead of the new school year in September, as our colleague Evangelia Sizopoulou reported in yesterday’s edition. The report adds that the decision, already in force in secondary schools, was taken chiefly to stop children isolating themselves and slipping...