Its long-awaited report, published on Tuesday, raised the alarm over the digitisation of children and young people’s lives and called for a better balance between digital and analogue life. The minister for children and education, Mattias Tesfaye, told Politiken: “There is a need to reclaim the school as an educational space, where there is room for reflection and where it is not an extension of the teenage bedroom.” The chair of the commission, Rasmus Meyer, compared the mobile phone ban to not allowing smo̾king in schools and said that the moment a child is given a smartphone “it will colonise the child’s entire life”.
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