Mirrors, not smartphones, driving students to distraction
7 March 2025
An English school principal has had all mirrors removed from school bathrooms, after students took to lingering in large groups in school toilets, to look at their reflections.
Anywhere else, it might be smartphones being blacklisted, but not at the William Farr Church of England Comprehensive School, a high school in the English county of Lincolnshire.
Students were frequently arriving late for classes because they were spending an excess of time gazing into the mirrors. They were also gathering in large numbers, which was making other of their classmates, who only wished to use toilets, uncomfortable.
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