Granite School District officials are considering whether or not the district should implement a universal policy banning cellphone use during school hours, citing cyberbulling and other challenges 'having a larger, outsized impact on instruction.”
Students look at their cellphones after school as they leave Granite School District's Evergreen Junior High School on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. The district is considering implementing a universal policy banning cellphone use during school.These are just a couple examples Granite School District officials shared at a school board meeting last month, discussing whether or not the district should implement a universal policy banning cellphone use during school hours.
It also comes after Gov. Spencer Cox in January penned a letter urging all Utah school districts and public charters to restrict student cellphone use during class. Granite students are not supposed to use cellphones in ways that harm other students. But no district-wide policy about whether or not students can access their phones during school currently exists.
There, if a teacher catches a student with their phone out, the device is placed in an envelope and taken to the front office, where it can be picked up at the end of the day. “It works very well at Evergreen,” Shaw said. “It isn’t a big deal anymore, with having to fight that battle with students and taking them away … because they know they can’t have them out at any time.” A student puts their cellphone in their pocket as they leave Evergreen Junior High School in Millcreek on Tuesday, April 16, 2024.
“It is hard when students jump junior high to junior high, and has new policies in every place,” Cutler said. “It would take that pressure off of the schools to try to deal with that.”
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