Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant has hit out at the “kind of ridiculous posh private schools” where he sends his own children for their “pathetic” policies and attitudes towards technology in the classroom.

Earlier this week, the Bafta winner appeared at an event for the campaign group Close Screens, Open Minds, who are calling for the ban of smartphones, tablets and laptops in UK classrooms.

Per The Telegraph, the Love Actually star described himself as “another angry parent fighting the eternal, exhausting and depressive battle with children who only want to be on a screen”.

He explained that the “final straw” for him was when he heard that one of his children’s schools had told parents “with some smugness”, that every child was being given a Chromebook laptop, on which they do some lessons and all their homework.

“[I] just thought that is the last fucking thing they need, and the last thing we need,” Hugh lamented.

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