The Irish Independent’s View: Why a smartphone ban in schools must be properly explored

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French president Emmanuel Macron wants to ban children from social media. The impetus has come from the fatal stabbing of a teaching assistant at a secondary school in the suburbs of Paris.

The incident came a month after a teenager killed a student in a similar incident at a school in Nantes. The French government is blaming harmful content on social media and Macron says France can’t wait any longer to ban social media for children under 15.