Mobile phones are set to be banned from Italian classrooms in the new school year, under a decree issued on Thursday by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing administration. The measure was introduced by Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara from the nationalist League party and aims to prohibit the use of smartphones in schools, including for teaching purposes. Tablets and computers can still be used with teachers’ consent. The ban on mobile phones is intended to improve pupils’ behaviour. In addition, schoolchildren are to be encouraged to improve their handwriting skills. Valditara fur…