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Students and board back stricter mobile‑device limits during school day; district to refine policy
Summary
Students and board members at Laguna Beach Unified described academic and mental‑health harms from phone use; the board discussed age‑differentiated rules, enforcement approaches and parent engagement and asked staff to return with implementation recommendations.
A broad discussion of mobile communications policy occupied the board’s Sept. 12 session, with students, staff and trustees debating age‑appropriate rules and enforcement.
Student board representatives Jaden Huang and Kate Hennessy summarized student outreach: they said they interviewed roughly 20 students and ran a survey of juniors and seniors; "90% of the students that we interviewed said that it did have a moderate to extreme impact on…
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