THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE ARTICLE BY JENNIFER BAIILEY
ABOVE: Megan Mohr, a social worker at Kenneth D. Bailey Academy in Danville, shows how students’ cell phones are kept in bins during the school day.
DANVILLE — Danville High School students’ all-day access to their cellphones could be changing as early as next school year.
A long-debated no-phone policy has already been implemented in other Vermilion County schools and at the Danville district’s Kenneth D. Bailey Academy, an alternative school for students in seventh through 12th grades. The Illinois Legislature also has been moving forward on a bill to ban phones during class time.
The proposed restrictions have brought mixed responses.
DJ Jenkins, a high school student at Bailey Academy, said the no-phone policy is good for students most of the school day but feels they should be able to use them during lunch. He said that without cellphones, students concentrate more on their classwork in classrooms.
“It’d be hard to teach,” he said about cellphones being a distraction.
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