After the publication of a report recommending the limitation of screens for children, or even a ban on them for the youngest among them, the Prime Minister hoped this Tuesday, April 30, that certain policies would be “rethought”.
National Education must “clean its house” on the issue of the use of screens, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said this Tuesday, April 30, warning that certain policies would have to be “rethought”.
The use of screens by children and adolescents is at the heart of a report, submitted Tuesday to Emmanuel Macron, which notably recommends their ban for the youngest and their supervision for adolescents.
“Textbooks have been replaced by books”
On this issue, “everyone must clean up their own house, including the State and National Education and the local authorities involved in National Education,” declared the head of government before the National Assembly.
“It is true that in a certain number of establishments and communities, textbooks have been replaced by screens,” continued Gabriel Attal. “I am not a technophobe who believes that all screens should be banned. There may be an educational aim and an educational interest.”
“But the screen for the screen’s sake has no interest, it can be dangerous and therefore we will also have to rethink a certain number of policies which are carried out today in our public services, particularly in education”, a- he added.
In a report submitted on Tuesday to the Head of State, the commission of experts responsible for working on the issue of screens by the executive issued a series of recommendations to combat “the hyperconnection suffered” by children.
The commission, among other things, recommends against individual equipment in elementary schools and calls for supervision of the deployment of educational tools.
Experts also want computers and televisions to be banned in nurseries and nursery classes and call for “reinforced actions” with childminders.
These measures appear in a bill proposed by two LR deputies, Annie Genevard and Antoine Vermorel-Marques, a parliamentary initiative to which Gabriel Attal gave his support on Tuesday, indicating that he hoped that this PPL “could be taken up and adopted.”
