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Princeton board reviews student handbook updates, adds 988 hotline and revises cell‑phone rules
Summary
District staff presented changes to elementary and secondary handbooks, adding the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for compliance with Ohio House Bill 468, replacing a blanket phone prohibition with building‑specific rules, and updating graduation requirement language; board members asked clarifying questions but no formal vote was recorded.
District staff presented a package of updates to the 2024–25 student handbooks, including an addition of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline to comply with state law, a revision of cell‑phone rules for secondary schools and several housekeeping deletions.
A district policy staff member said the hotline was added "to provide that resource but also ensure compliance with Ohio House Bill 468." On cell phones, staff described removing a blanket prohibition and adding school‑specific language: "we have deleted the comment saying that the use of cell phones is prohibited, and added a comment specific to the high school and 1 specific to the middle school, outlining exactly what they do whereas high school turns their their phones in in a specified location prior to class and then middle school prohibited at all times," the staff member said.
Other edits included removal of an outdated secondary behavior pyramid, deleting language about progress reports previously used for English learners, removal of attendance language for full remote students (no longer applicable), and a clarified overview of graduation requirements for the classes of 2023 and beyond. A board member asked whether high‑school cell‑phone handling would depend teacher‑by‑teacher; staff replied that secondary teams had worked to make the practice "very consistent and universal." No formal vote on the handbook changes was recorded in the meeting transcript; the presentation was discussed and board members requested follow‑up clarifications.
Next steps: staff said they will finalize handbook language and provide clarifications requested by board members prior to publishing the updated handbooks for the coming school year.
