Overview
- The Secretaría de Educación Pública will consult more than one million teachers during the Consejo Técnico Escolar on August 24–25 to collect proposals about the presence and use of cellphones and other digital devices in roughly 200,000 schools.
- As a first step the SEP is also holding regional expert forums beginning August 19 in Monterrey to gather specialist input that will be broadcast on SEP platforms.
- Officials say the initial discussion will concentrate on phone use inside classrooms and that conclusions from teachers and forums could shape a later federal regulatory proposal or legislative initiative.
- Researchers and specialists warn that social‑media product design and recommendation algorithms can drive excessive use, expose minors to sexual or violent content, and enable unsolicited contacts, and many NGOs press for industry obligations rather than blanket bans.
- Policy urgency is driven by high youth connectivity in Mexico — INEGI's Endutih 2025 shows 85.4% of children aged 6–14 use the internet — and by the fact that 16 states already have local rules, creating pressure to craft a rights‑respecting, nationwide approach.