by InTrieste
Italy’s new right-wing government is set to ban phones in class during lessons to prevent students from getting distracted, education minister Giuseppe Valditara told state broadcaster RAI last week.
Valditara told newspaper Corriere della Sera on Wednesday: “I say that you must not enter the classroom with your cell phone. You can leave it at the entrance or in any case outside the lesson: you go to school to study, not to chat”.
The minister, 61, also reiterated his controversial proposal to remove the reddito di cittadinanza welfare benefit from young people who have not completed their schooling.
“These kids prefer to receive the citizen’s income rather than study and train to build their own dignified life plan”, the minister said at a meeting with the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI) last week.
