Wauchope High School locks pupils' mobile phones in pouches as a part of a digital detox program

Letitia Fitzpatrick
May 10 2019 - 9:00am
DIGITAL DETOX: Wauchope High School students have to lock their mobile phones inside a pouch during school hours.
DIGITAL DETOX: Wauchope High School students have to lock their mobile phones inside a pouch during school hours.

Wauchope High School has come up with a solution to the problem of students constantly looking at their mobiles.

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Letitia Fitzpatrick

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Senior journalist, Wauchope Gazette

Worked as a journalist and assistant producer for BBC news and current affairs in the UK, Ulster Television, Q Radio and the Irish News in Northern Ireland. Moved to Australia and joined Fairfax Media in 2016. Won a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship award in 2018 for reporting the Pappinbarra bushfires and the subsequent Rotary appeal which raised $30,000.

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