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Students, teachers and health professionals tell House Education phone-free policies boost classroom engagement
Summary
Students and education stakeholders testified to the House Education Committee that phone-free school policies — using locked pouches and other systems — helped students focus and build social connections.
Students, teachers and health professionals told the House Education Committee on Feb. 26 that schoolwide phone-free policies help classroom engagement, social connection and student well-being, and asked the committee to consider a uniform state policy.
Student witnesses described systems used at their schools to keep phones and personal electronics out of classrooms. “When I left in the fall to go to semester school, I went to Alazar School. That's a school in Idaho and Chile. And we were without phones the entire semester and we got to build really strong connections,” said Elijah Renner, a student who testified that his home school later adopted a phone-free policy that included locked pouches. “Getting rid of phones…
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