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Trustees discuss phone-free schools after book study; no policy vote
Summary
Sweetwater County School District No. 1 trustees spent much of a board meeting discussing a book study that advocates phone-free schools and possible changes to district policy; trustees emphasized education and community outreach but did not take formal action.
Trustees for Sweetwater County School District No. 1 spent a portion of their June meeting reviewing the final chapters of a book recommending “FoamFreeSchools” and discussing whether the district should tighten rules on student cell phone and personal-device use in classrooms.
The conversation began when Chair Wright read a passage summarizing the book’s view of parenting and learning: “Our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child,” he said. That prompted…
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