School has just resumed in parts of the US and Canada.
And students in Washington DC and British Colombia will be returning to class without their mobile phones, because of new rules to keep phones out of the classroom.
They are following the footsteps of Australia, which has a no-phone policy in public schools.
Al Jazeera’s Sarah Clarke reports from Brisbane, Australia.
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