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High-school teachers urge delay to stricter phone ban; board sends phone policy back to committee
Summary
A BEA-led high-school organizing team asked the Board to delay adopting a stricter district phone ban so building staff can implement a school-led plan; the board voted 4-2 to send the proposed policy back to the policy committee for further work.
Beloit Memorial High School teachers and an organizing team representing the Beloit Education Association urged the Beloit School District Board of Education on Aug. 5 to delay adopting a districtwide tightening of the student cellphone policy and allow building staff to test an implementation plan.
"We appreciate that the board wants to see the distractions of phones removed from the classroom," Becky (BEA high school organizing team) told the board during public comment, "but our concern is that the proposed policy change would make enforcement…
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