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Chester County board keeps TSBA 'B' device policy after debate over collection and enforcement
Summary
After extended debate about enforcement, collection costs and student safety, the Chester County Board of Education voted 4–2 to adopt TSBA policy 6.312 (option B): K–5 students must keep personal devices turned off and stored during the school day; grades 6–12 must keep devices turned off during instructional time but may use them during breaks, with listed exceptions.
The Chester County Board of Education voted 4–2 to adopt Tennessee School Boards Association (TSBA) policy 6.312 option B for personal electronic devices, keeping a split approach between elementary and secondary grades.
Board members discussed two TSBA options after the legislature’s public chapter 103 narrowed local authority to limit devices only during instructional time. Under the policy the board approved, students in kindergarten through fifth grade must have personal wireless communication devices turned off and stored throughout the school day; students in grades 6–12 must have devices turned off during instructional time but may possess and…
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