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Rutherford County board delays enactment of new student cell-phone policy to summer review
Summary
The Rutherford County Board of Education discussed implementing state law changes to policy 6.312 on student personal communication devices, heard concerns about enforcement and student behavior, and voted to postpone final action to the summer policy meeting.
Rutherford County Board of Education members discussed proposed changes to policy 6.312 on the use of personal communication and electronic devices at a regular meeting and voted to postpone action until the summer policy meeting.
The proposed changes respond to a recently passed state measure (Public Chapter 103) and aim to align district policy with the law while preserving limited in-class use for instructional purposes, administrators said. “I want instruction to always be the focus of what we're doing,” said Doctor Sullivan, an administrator who led…
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