THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE STORY BY JENNIFER BAILEY
ABOVE: As students enter school, pouches will be magnetically locked in the mornings and unlocked in the afternoons. (Photo by Jennifer Bailey of DHS Principal Jacob Bretz.)
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DANVILLE — It’s a big task for the school district.
And it’s going to be a significant change of daily habits for the more than 1,200 students and staff in not having a cellphone, ear buds to listen to music, or even a smartwatch for communication during the school day at Danville High School this year.
But Principal Jacob Bretz said electronic devices are too much of a distraction in classrooms. The new cellphone ban, he said, is being done from a position of care.
“The last couple years, we left it up to the teachers to kind of govern their classrooms,” Bretz said. “All of them really had the common expectation that phones would be away during instructional time. Teachers did like to allow the students to use them like during individual silent work time, and we were just running into the constant battle that temptation of that phone being accessible in the pocket, wondering do I have a message, feeling the notifications go off and the urge to check them.”
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