Director of a private school in Washington Diana Smith promised to pay $ 100 from her pocket to students of the 7th and 8th grades, who at least every Tuesday will refuse to use various kinds of electronics - smartphones, tablets, televisions, computers and so on.. About a kind of action that will last until the beginning of the next school year in late August, the newspaper The Washington Post reported on Friday.

"I do not like when teachers bribe their pupils with delicacies, so I break my rules," she said.. "But I think they need help.". Smith fears that students of her school will spend all day spending time with the TV, looking at the screens of smartphones or behind computer games. According to her, students because of this risk getting health problems.

"I'm very worried about the fact that the ubiquitous phones broke into their lives," explains the director of the school, which forbids the use of smartphones during classes.

At the end of May, before the holidays began, Smith told her parents about her proposal, who in the majority approved her initiative. Schoolchildren, too, were not against receiving extra "pocket money". To do this, they need to spend 11 Tuesdays without phones, computers, tablets, video games and TV. In case the adolescent leaves home, he will need to be concerned in advance with the issue of communication with parents, since the transaction does not include exceptions. At the end of summer, parents should send Smith a letter confirming that their offspring did not use gadgets.

The principal is worried that her students will spend too much time with electronic devices at the expense of active rest. At school 160 seven- and eighth-graders are trained, and, theoretically, it will have to part with $ 16 thousand.

"I think that only 50 of them can do this," assesses the capabilities of his charges director. "I know guys who can not even live without a phone for an hour".