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Students urge Rutherford County to refine cellphone policy; district says ban enforced during instructional time
Summary
Several high-school students urged the board to limit smartphone restrictions to instructional time and to exempt headphones and certain classroom uses; the director said the district is enforcing a county policy that requires devices to be stored during the school day unless permitted for instruction.
Four student speakers from Central Magnet High School told the Rutherford County School Board they support greater nuance in the district's personal-device policy enacted after Tennessee House Bill 0932 and asked the board to allow limited use during non-instructional times.
Daniel Lee, a Central Magnet senior, said Rutherford County Schools' back-to-school communications implied a ban on headphones, though he noted the county policy text and HB0932 do not explicitly mention headphones. "Headphones will also not be allowed during the school day," Lee said he read on the district hub; he added that the local policy text does not…
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