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Episode: No TikTok, no Instagram: Chilean school blocks phones and students rediscover real-world connections
Description: Volleyball, basketball, ping pong, dancing rehearsals or simple chats. Dozens of teens are rediscovering how to reconnect to the real world after a school in Santiago, Chile, implemented a pioneering program in the country that blocks cell phone signals.
Now, instead of compulsively scrolling through their Instagram feeds or sharing choreographed TikTok dances, students spend time at the library, the café or along the several courts of Lo Barnechea Bicentenario school.
“Breaks are very lively now,” the school’s principal, Humberto Garrido, told The Associated Press.
In order to stimulate bonding among youngsters, the school also put in place a “comprehen...