Sweden starts all-day phone collection in compulsory schools
Pupils across Sweden's compulsory schools are returning for the autumn term under a new rule requiring phones to be collected at the start of each school day and returned when it ends.
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The rule, which took effect on 1 August, covers preschool class, compulsory school and equivalent school forms, after-school centres and open leisure activities. It does not apply to upper-secondary school.
Teachers and headteachers may allow phones for teaching, extra adaptations or special support. Individual exceptions are also possible for particular reasons, and schools can waive collection on trips when handing devices back would create major practical difficulties.
TV4 reported on Sunday that schools were preparing storage and routines as the autumn term begins. Nyboda school in Tyresö has converted entrance lockers for phones after pupils worked around an earlier local ban.
About 80 per cent of compulsory schools already had some form of restriction. The new law makes all-day collection the national default.
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