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Students and parents call for cell‑phone access and fewer assessments during Hamilton County Schools work session
Summary
Public commenters urged the board to allow students to carry phones/watches for safety and health needs and called for fewer assessments and stronger teacher compensation during budget planning.
Hamilton County Board of Education work session — A student and parent volunteers used the board’s public comment period to press the district on two school‑level policies: cell‑phone access for students and the volume of school assessments, and to urge protection of special education supports during budget cuts.
Mabry Connor, a sixth‑grade musical theater student at CCA Center for Creative Arts, told the board she supports allowing students to bring phones and wearable devices to school so they can communicate with family when transportation plans change and to manage medical needs. “For children with chronic…
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