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To implement the ban, the school relied on an about $35,000 grant from its alumni association to purchase locking pouches that students are asked to put their phones in each morning.
A 2024 California law requires the state’s nearly 1,000 school districts to create their own cellphone policies by July 2026. Several other states haven’t banned phones, but have encouraged ...
While mobile phones are already banned in classrooms without teacher permission and banned in primary schools nationwide, mobile phone bans or restrictions in high schools (secondary schools) during lunch and recess breaks and during free time have become a highly controversial issue and laws vary in each state and territory, as well as by school.
Other large school districts, such as Los Angeles, were able to ban phones on school campuses. Florida banned cellphones across the state in 2023 and Indiana and Ohio passed legislation this year ...
Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones is a British two-part docuseries that follows pupils at The Stanway School in Colchester who suffer from problematic smartphone use and social media addiction. Emma and Matt Willis follow the pupils' time away from screens as their smartphones are seized for 21 days. [1] [2]
Schools that banned phones a few years ago have advice on how to make it work. CalMatters reports on how California's governor is calling for a statewide crackdown on cell phones in schools, an ...
The school’s phone ban was a grassroots effort that began with a few teachers volunteering to pilot the program in their classrooms. Full faculty buy-in came next, followed by convincing parents.
According to the surveyed teachers, there are preexisting cellphone policies in 82% of K-12 schools and districts in the U.S; however, in 30% of the schools with policies, the teachers struggle to ...