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Platte County School District #1 board hears committee recommendation for stricter student cell-phone limits
Summary
A district committee proposed a policy to ban phones for K— students and require phones for grades 6— to be turned off and left in backpacks, with progressive disciplinary steps; board members asked the policy committee to review and gather staff and parent input before formal readings.
At a work session, the Platte County School District #1 board reviewed preliminary recommendations from a cell-phone committee that would sharply limit student access to personal cellular devices.
Diane, who presented the committee's findings, said the group proposed that any policy adopted would take effect in the 2025—6 school year and would ban cellular devices entirely for kindergarten through fifth grade. For grades six through eight, devices would need to be turned off upon entering the building and remain in backpacks. In high school, students would be required to turn phones off at arrival but could access them during the lunch period, the committee suggested. "We feel there…
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