Pupils uploading at school face expulsion

Students who post videos on social media exposing or mocking their classmates during school hours will be expelled, according to the Education Ministry. 

It is the most severe penalty provided for in the penal code of the Education Ministry, which now aims to comply with the ban on mobile phones at Greek schools.

The ban is included in circulars from the ministry but is observed by very few students, while the teachers are very flexible. The problem is most acute among older children, in middle school and senior high. Cellphones have now become the primary vehicle for forms of digital school bullying. Following in the footsteps of other European countries, Denmark in particular, the Education Ministry is to draft a "penalty protocol," with the aim of enforcing the ban on mobile phones in schools. Each offense will correspond to a specific penalty. Its aim is to make...