Overview
- Born in a sixth-grade class at Colegio San Nicolás, the initiative grew from about 20 parents to roughly 300 through a WhatsApp group and a manifesto on pactoparental.org.
- The commitments bar a personal smartphone before age 13 and seek to keep children off social networks until 16 as a community agreement to reduce peer pressure.
- Organizers cite teacher concerns and research on attention, sleep, self-esteem and mental health, including figures that most teachers view phones as harmful and children spend four to six hours daily on devices.
- The school’s leadership signaled support, and the secondary director said students will be required to keep phones off during classes starting in 2026, with primary devices already banned.
- Families plan to apply the pact next academic year and report sign-ups from other schools in Mendoza as well as from Córdoba and Buenos Aires provinces.