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Trustees discuss book study on youth tech harms; district weighs phone-locking options
Summary
Trustees and staff discussed chapters from The Anxious Generation and debated classroom device policy and possible phone-lock solutions; the board previewed a vendor 'Yonder' locking pouch and emphasized policy, discipline and community input.
Trustees used a portion of the May 20 meeting to continue a board book study of The Anxious Generation and to discuss how technology affects student mental health and classroom behavior.
Chair Wright and several trustees summarized chapters that link sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation and social-media harms to poorer student outcomes. "We are too quick to anger and too slow to forgive... Social media trains us to do the opposite," one trustee…
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