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Board discusses likely state "bell-to-bell" cell-phone ban and local implementation choices
Summary
MSD Wabash County Schools trustees discussed a likely state "bell-to-bell" cell-phone ban that will force the district to choose whether to prohibit devices entirely or require powered-off storage; board members asked whether the rule must appear in board policy or may be adopted in student handbooks and flagged exceptions for medical and dual-credit access.
The Chair and district administrators discussed a pending state "bell-to-bell" cell-phone ban that the Presenter said is "most likely going to pass," and noted the district will have to decide how to implement it locally.
The Presenter said the law will require the district to adopt a rule deciding "whether we prohibit devices completely from school or that we allow the devices to be powered off and inaccessible by students, during the day in some type of storage policy like blockers or something like…
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