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Manhasset teams plan enforcement and outreach for NY cellphone ban; recommendations include lockers, detention
Summary
Shared decision-making teams presented recommended school-level approaches to implement New York’s proposed ban on internet-enabled personal devices, advising bell-to-bell locker storage, medical exceptions, and confiscation followed by after‑school detention for first violations.
Shared decision-making teams across the Manhasset Union Free School District presented recommendations to align school practice with the New York proposal that would ban internet-enabled personal devices during the school day. Doctor Rotter (secondary school leader) told the board the teams began work this year and, pending final state regulations, recommend students store smartphones, smartwatches, tablets and AirPods in lockers from bell to bell.
Doctor Rotter said the teams surveyed teachers (about 110 responses) and trialed ‘‘phone caddies’’ with generally positive results. ‘‘All internet-enabled personal devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, personal laptops, and AirPods will be in…
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