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Parent urges exemption from phone restrictions after child was lost and traumatized

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A Palm Springs Unified parent urged the board to allow exemptions to a forthcoming cell phone policy after describing an incident in which her daughter was temporarily lost and traumatized on the first day of school.

At the Jan. 28 Palm Springs Unified School District board meeting, parent Selena Flores asked the board to allow exemptions to an upcoming cell phone policy after recounting a January incident she said left her daughter lost and emotionally traumatized.

Flores said her daughter did not bring a phone because Flores believes phones are a classroom distraction. Flores described an incident on the first day of school in which her child…

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