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Student rep reports mixed feedback on school'wide cell phone policy; teachers report positive classroom effects
Summary
Student representative Adona presented survey results showing mostly neutral student responses to a new cell phone policy but stronger positive reactions from teachers; students asked for study-hall exceptions and raised emergency-access concerns about locked phone storage.
Adona, the student representative to the board, reported on Nov. 3 on student climate across the district and summarized feedback from a schoolwide survey about the high school's new cell phone policy. She said nearly 400 students and 45 teachers responded to the survey distributed before a school break.
Adona said student responses were ‘‘mostly indifferent’’ on several items, though a notable minority reported classroom benefits: "about 25% said that it did improve the quality of their learning." She described survey responses indicating increased peer conversation after the policy's implementation and that some students now use their phones more outside school hours, a…
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