Schools across the country continue to struggle with the devices more than 15 years after the release of the first iPhone.
Seven years ago, the former New York City Schools Chancellor said the city’s decision to lift a ban on cell phones in schools was “common sense.”
Last week, the Philadelphia Board of Education approved a contract of up to $5 million with a company that makes locking phone pouches that allow educators to make classrooms phone-free.
The two decisions and the years between highlight the ongoing debate about the proper place for phones in school in the digital era.
Schools across the country continue to struggle with the devices more than 15 years after the release of the first iPhone. Concerns about distractions in class, fights in hallways and other behavior issues have prompted bans in some schools along with statewide legislation to address the issues.
Hopewell City Public Schools, which serve about 4,000 students in Virginia, started using locking phone pouches this fall after years of trying to curtail phone use.
The snow flakes will never go for it !!!
Cell phones should never have been allowed in public schools to begin with. If the students must bring them to school, the phones should remain locked in the student’s locker until the end of the school day.
Elder here. World worked fine b4 cellphones, period.
I would like to see a world wide ban on cell phones.
Take each and every one of them and put them in an incinerator.
Well , then the drug pushers would have to work harder !!
Tik Tokers need them to tease !!!!