COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – When the Coldwater Community Schools Board of Education meets in their regular session tonight they will be entertaining a second reading on a revised policy to ban cell phones during the school day.
Earlier this month the The board’s Policy Advisory committee along with Superintendent Paul Flynn and High School Principal Doctor Steven Hope met to review the proposed changes to the policy which include having student’s phones remain in their locker while classes are in session.
Superintendent Flynn said during an August 5 special meeting he’s hoping the revised policy will work as well as it has in other districts.
State senator Jonathon Lindsey is also in favor of banning phones in the class room, even though a bill to do so state wide stalled in the senate earlier this year. Lindsey says the biggest push back he’s received was from those concerned about students not having access to the phones in case of an emergency, for that he says he would be open to some flexibility .
Tonight’s meeting begins at 6:00 p.m.
BACC has been doing this for years. Students put their cell phones in a basket as they come into class. Seems to be working.