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Residents urge district to adopt phone-free school day and caution about AI impacts on instruction
Summary
Several community members asked the board to implement a districtwide ban on smartphones during the school day and warned that unrestricted student access undermines district investments in AI-safe instructional tools.
Multiple community members used the citizen-comment period to urge the Redmond School District Board to move toward a phone-free school day and to emphasize concerns about student access to harmful online content and the interaction between personal devices and district investments in AI and instructional technology.
What speakers said: Virginia Johnson, identified in public comment, asked the board to pursue a districtwide ban on smartphones and other personal Internet-…
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