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Mascot councilwoman urges change to student cell-phone policy after daughter lost trip
Summary
Robin Haynes, a Mascot councilwoman and parent, told the Lake County School Board that Policy 5136 led to her daughter being removed from an eighth-grade trip after a phone fell into a pocket; Haynes proposed a 30-second 'safe-harbor' retriever clause and asked the board to standardize policy language to avoid selective enforcement.
Robin Haynes, a councilwoman from Mascot, told the Lake County School Board on April 13 that Policy 5136’s vague language allowed a teacher-by-teacher approach that led to her eighth-grade daughter losing eligibility for a grad trip after the phone fell out of the student’s pocket.
Haynes said the school verified the phone was never used, yet her daughter’s participation was still revoked. "When a…
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