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Students urge flexible cell-phone rules; board schedules local discussions
Summary
Multiple student speakers at the Wake County Board of Education meeting urged a new district cell-phone policy that lets individual schools and teachers set limits, with exceptions for emergencies. Board members noted upcoming school- and district-level meetings to study policy options.
Students and some board members pressed the Wake County Board of Education on Jan. 21 to craft a cell-phone policy that balances classroom control with flexibility for different schools and emergency access.
Student speakers described pervasive phone use in instruction and urged the district to allow school- or teacher-level discretion, storage options and explicit emergency exceptions. "It should be mandated at the school level, allowing for flexibility between classrooms according to the individual needs of teachers and staff," said Sohan Mohabtar, an 11th-grade student at NLOW High School. "We should give teachers the power to tweak the policy to their needs and…
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