{"id":43686,"date":"2025-02-25T23:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=43686"},"modified":"2025-02-25T23:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:20:48","slug":"denmark-moves-to-ban-phones-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/denmark-moves-to-ban-phones-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark Moves to Ban Phones in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark&#8217;s Minister of Education announced that the government is preparing legislation to ban smartphones in schools, following recommendations from a youth welfare committee presented on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Minister Mattias Tesfaye told the Danish newspaper Politiken, &#8220;We in the government have chosen to support this idea, which is why we have begun drafting a change in the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The specific details of the new legislation have yet to be determined, but the minister emphasized that &#8220;mobile phones and personal tablets have no place in school\u2014not during breaks and not in lessons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to banning phone use in schools and colleges, the welfare committee also recommended delaying children&#8217;s use of smartphones until the age of 13.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Culture Jakob Engel-Schmidt stated at a press conference, &#8220;In my opinion, screens are stealing the childhood of many of our children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether smartphones should be taken away from children under 13, the committee chairman responded affirmatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark&#8217;s Minister of Education announced that the government is preparing legislation to ban smartphones in schools, following recommendations from a youth welfare committee presented on Tuesday. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Minister Mattias Tesfaye told the Danish newspaper Politiken, &#8220;We in the government have chosen to support this idea, which is why we have begun &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43687,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43686\/revisions\/43687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}