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Public commenter urges stricter cellphone policy and removal of books with profanity from DGS curriculum
Summary
A member of the public presented a literacy-improvement plan urging the district to enforce a classroom cellphone policy and to remove books containing repeated profanity and explicit material from student-assigned reading; the board said it would forward his materials to members for review.
A public commenter, identified as Bobby Tazato, presented what he described as a “literacy improvement plan” and urged the board to adopt two changes: stricter enforcement of a classroom cellphone policy and removal of assigned texts that contain repeated profanity or explicit imagery.
Tazato said students are distracted by cellphones and suggested “put their cell…
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