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Division report: cellphone incidents drove large part of discipline increase at Orange County High School

6438343 · September 23, 2025
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Summary

Staff presented the annual SBAR (student behaviors and administrative response) report showing a large increase in discipline referrals tied to cellphone use at Orange County High School, while elementary school incidents showed smaller changes.

School staff told the Orange County School Board that reported discipline incidents rose at the high school and that more than 1,000 of the increase were related to cellphone referrals, according to the division’s SBAR report.

Susan, a student‑behavior and reporting staff member who presented the SBAR data, said the increase at the high school included a large number of cellphone incidents and accompanying noncompliance codes. “The total number of incidents... over a thousand of those incidents are related to cell phones,” Susan said. She explained that cellphone referrals often come with a second code — for example, failure to comply with staff requests — and that both codes are entered in…

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