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Yondr cell phone pouches with a magnetic lock release have been implemented this year at Fern Creek High School, limiting student access to their phones while school is in session.
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.
Enacted in 2024, House Bill 250 (H.B. 250) mandates that school districts adopt policies aimed at limiting student cell phone use during school hours. The bill includes exceptions for students with health conditions requiring monitoring or for learning accommodations. The law takes effect in August 2024.
The policies range widely. Florida was the first state to crack down on phones in school, passing a 2023 law that requires all public schools to ban cellphone use during class time and block ...
Elizabeth Keren-Kolb, a clinical professor of education technologies and teacher education at the University of Michigan who has written books on cellphone use in school, said concerns about kids ...
“I haven’t had any problems with it,” 13-year-old Long Island eighth grader Bella Tharler told me over the phone. She recently moved to New York from Hawaii and says the cellphone rules are ...
The school has banned cell phones during school hours, including lunch, since 2022. The problem and how they fixed it Middle school students coming back to campus in 2021 were used to being ...
At Nguyen’s school, students lock their phones in neoprene pouches during classes or even all day. A teacher or principal’s magnetic key unlocks the pouches.