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A girl in school uniform shows a phone to two boys in uniform.

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A smiling boy with longish, curly brown hair, stands with his arms crossed in a leafy playground.

A smiling young girl with hair past her shoulders, wearing a maroon school jumper.

"Recess and lunch breaks … we used to sit on our phones. I've noticed that people are a lot more active, people go around on walks a lot, they talk to each other more."

A smiling boy with short, dark brown, wavy hair, in a maroon school uniform t-shirt stands with his arms crossed.

Two smiling girls wearing blue school uniforms, standing in a school playground.

A portrait of a smiling older woman with short red-blond hair, wearing a red leather jacket.

"What they've actually said is … they've had less problems with mobile phones, discipline-wise … well, that's fairly obvious, isn't it [when phones are banned]?"

A close up of a child's hands holding a mobile phone, with a game on the screen. In the background is a computer keyboard.

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