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Eagle Point staff present PED (cell‑phone) plan: phones to stay in backpacks at school with medical exceptions
Summary
District staff described a Personal Electronic Device (PED) plan in response to a governor’s executive order. The plan requires students to keep phones in backpacks or lockers during school hours, allows exceptions for documented medical needs and sets graded enforcement (confiscation, lunch detention, parent pickup).
District staff presented a Personal Electronic Device (PED) plan to the Eagle Point School District 9 board on Sept. 12 that would require students to store phones and other personal electronic devices (AirPods, smart watches, etc.) in backpacks or lockers during the school day, with narrow medical and 504/IEP exceptions.
Heather (district administrator) told the board the plan was developed after the governor issued an executive order requiring districts to adopt PED plans (the executive order’s implementation deadline described to the board was Oct. 31, 2025; the ban’s effective date in the order is Jan. 1, 2026). The district decided to put the policy into…
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