BEIJING — After confiscating three smartphones from the same student, Yu Liangliang, head teacher at a high school in Wuhan, Hubei province, decided to give the girl a two-day suspension to reinforce a classroom ban on the devices.
“The first time I took her smartphone, she told me she would not bring one to school again, but she broke the promise twice and I had to take stricter measures,” Yu said.
The move is in line with a ruling by the Ministry of Education, which issued a total ban on smartphone use in classrooms at all primary and secondary schools at the start of the spring semester.
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