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Penncrest approves student cellphone rule; handbook will require phones stored in lockers by homeroom
Summary
After extended discussion, the Penncrest board approved an updated acceptable-use policy and the 2025–26 student handbooks with a change: students must store cellphones in lockers by the start of homeroom/first period; cafeteria and dismissal access permitted.
The Penncrest School District Board of School Directors approved an update to its acceptable-use policy and the 2025–26 handbooks that narrows classroom cellphone access and places explicit locker requirements on students.
At the Committee-of-the-Whole session, board members discussed enforcement options, discipline steps and building-level differences in cellphone use. The board approved policy 237 (Acceptable Use of Personally Owned Electronic Devices)…
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