Greece’s education ministry has banned mobile phones in schools in response to a flurry of cases where pupils used their cells to film sexual activity and violent behavior.

“Pupils are not allowed to have mobile phones in their possession inside school grounds,” the ministry said in a circular disseminated to primary and secondary schools.

“In exceptional cases where a pupil has a mobile phone, (he or she) is obliged to keep it turned off” on pain of sanctions, the circular said.

In the past weeks, educators and psychologists have argued that the videotaping of unruly behavior encourages further disorder, with pupils in some cases competing to create increasingly shocking footage.

Source: AFP