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District staff outlines new administrative rule on student cell phones responding to state proviso
Summary
District chief of schools presented a draft administrative rule (JICDB) to implement the state proviso on electronic device use, emphasizing progressive consequences, device return the same day, and removal of duplicative language from policy JICDA R.
Miss Washington, the district's Chief of Schools, presented an administrative rule implementing policy JICDB to align Berkeley County School District practice with a state proviso on student cell phones.
The committee that produced the rule included multiple principals from the district. Washington described a progressive-consequences approach that begins with interventions, parent and student conferences, and moves through escalating measures; infractions 3 through 5 may include confiscation of a device by the school, but the district said no student will leave campus without his or her device the same day.
The rule includes options for electronic-device behavioral contracts for chronic offenders and allows for in-school suspension or loss of privileges in some elementary cases. Washington said language in policy JICDA R regarding electronic communication devices would be removed because it does not align with JICDB.
The presentation was informational; the transcript records the administrative rule update within the superintendent's report and recognition that principals and district staff contributed to the guideline. No formal board action to adopt the administrative rule was recorded in the Jan. 6 meeting minutes presented in the transcript.
