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Nantucket schools review draft ban on student cell phones, committee debates emergency access and unlocking system
Summary
The Nantucket School Committee reviewed a draft policy to require students to store phones in secure Yonder pouches during the school day. Administrators said phones would be unlocked at designated magnet stations; committee members raised concerns about choke points and emergency access.
The Nantucket School Committee reviewed a draft policy that would require students to keep personal cell phones secured in vendor-supplied pouches during the school day, with pouches unlocked by magnetic stations in school offices.
Superintendent Dr. [Doctor] Hallett said the district has been discussing the policy following developments at the state level and that the district would contract with Yonder for the pouch system. "Yonder works with heavy duty cloth pouches that have a magnetic closure ... when students arrive in school, they will put their phone into a pouch and the pouch will be closed and that closure will stay that way until it can be unlocked with a magnet," Hallett said.
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