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Lots of you have been in touch about whether mobile phones should be banned in schools.

It comes after a government minister said that they should.

Nick Gibb, who looks after school standards in England, said that overuse of smartphones "drives out time for them to talk to their parents, exercise, do their homework or play with friends."

The Minister said he feels young people need to learn how to limit their time using social media and playing games on their phones.

However, there are people who disagree with Mr Gibb's ideas.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) says that banning phones could cause more problems than it solves, forcing students to use their phones in secret at school.

This suggestion from Mr Gibb follows a report from Ofcom earlier this week which claimed that some young people find hanging out in real life too much effort and prefer to interact on social media.

Mr Gibb believes that too much time on smartphones is bad for students - distracting them from their work, and preventing them from interacting with others as often as he feels they should.

The National Association of Head Teachers believe that instead schools should make their own choices about whether to ban phones or not, and that instead of outright bans - teaching students about how to monitor their own use of smartphones is a better thing to do.

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Comment below and let us know if you think smartphones should be banned in school.