France's President Emmanuel Macron (C) speaks with teachers during his visit to the INSPE University on the first day of the new academic year in Mende, southern France on September 1, 2026. Emmanuel Macron defended, before tenth-grade students of a school in Mende, on September 1, 2026, the banning of mobile phones in high schools, the main new development of the school return. (Photo by Guillaume HORCAJUELO / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)