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Beatrice board debates stricter student-phone rules for high school handbook
Summary
Board members reviewed a proposed handbook rule that would require high school students to store phones in teacher-designated classroom pockets, outline incremental confiscation consequences and aim for consistent enforcement; no formal board policy change was made at this meeting.
The Beatrice Public Schools Board of Education spent the largest portion of its meeting debating a proposed Personal Electronic Device (PED) rule for the student handbook that would restrict phone use during instructional time at Beatrice High School.
Unidentified Speaker 4, presenting the proposal, said the change would place PEDs in a teacher-designated classroom storage location and make expectations "clearer" for students and staff. "In the new policy, all PEDs are stored in the teacher's designated location requirement," the presenter said, summarizing what the handbook change would require.
The proposal is framed as a handbook rule rather than a board-level policy, which would make it easier to update and enforce without a formal policy amendment.…
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