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Revere High recommends clear locker boxes to enforce schoolwide phone policy
Summary
Revere High School staff presented a recommendation to require students to place phones in clear, locked locker boxes at the start of each class; the School Committee referred the proposal to the policy subcommittee and asked staff to begin communications with families before summer break.
Revere High School administrators on May 28 presented a plan to require students to place cell phones into clear, locked locker boxes at the start of each class and to return them at the end of the period, a step they say would standardize enforcement across the building.
Afkan Dean, assistant principal at Revere High School, told the School Committee the working group he co-led reviewed district practice and comparable districts and concluded "the locker boxes... would provide consistency, and they would give us a clear system for all hundred plus classrooms across the high school." The group is piloting variants in several classrooms and recommended a full implementation in September 2025.
The recommendation grew from…
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