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Greenwich High administrators propose limited cell‑phone access during free time after stakeholder committee review
Summary
Administrators told the board a committee of parents, students, teachers and administrators recommended allowing phones during non-instructional time after surveys of 1,100 students, 1,280 parents and 209 teachers; staff will return with a consistent classroom implementation plan for March.
High school administrators told the Greenwich Board of Education that a stakeholder committee convened this fall to recommend how cell phones should be regulated in 2024–25 and recommended allowing phones during non-instructional periods (opens and lunch) while banning them during instructional time. "We... determined that, we we were going to, not allow students to use their cell phones, throughout the school day," an administrator said of the committee deliberations before explaining why the final recommendation was more permissive.
The committee ran surveys and collected…
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