Suggestion to Ban Mobile Phones in Schools

March 31, 2026

UNESCO has established a global platform to monitor schools worldwide. This platform conducted a survey of schools worldwide, the results of which indicate that schoolchildren worldwide, including India, are obsessed with using mobile phones. As a result, children’s concentration in class is declining. Excessive internet use is hindering intellectual development. Games are distracting them, hindering their mental development. And sitting idle playing games and eating junk food is increasing obesity. These factors apply to schoolchildren worldwide. Indian children become so engrossed in mobile phones that they lose focus on reading and studying.

This hinders their intellectual development. Furthermore, the popularity of online games has led to the emergence of numerous illegal gaming sites. These sites operate a parallel business of bullying people, especially children. The cyber fraud industry is becoming increasingly international, and even schoolchildren are not spared. News has started surfacing about children squandering large sums of their parents’ money on games.

A new debate has now emerged about whether mobile phone use should be allowed in schools or should be banned. UNESCO says that children’s attention spans are declining. First, France banned the use of phones in primary and upper primary grades. Subsequently, countries like Colombia, Estonia, Peru, Indonesia, Serbia, Poland, and the Philippines also banned the use of mobile phones in schools.

The report states that 58 percent of the world’s schools have banned the use of mobile phones. Today is the era of AI, or artificial intelligence. In such a situation, how can internet access be restricted? If paperless online learning is to become popular worldwide and bridge the gap between time and space in higher education, how can mobile phones be snatched from the hands of the younger generation? The real problem isn’t its use, but rather its misuse.