Before a ban on cellphones, Jill Haffley said her classroom “was like Vegas.”
“The cellphones were lighting up all the time,” said Haffley, who was a teacher for 30 years before being elected to the Colorado Springs School District 11 school board.
Weary of the distractions, Haffley ran for office in 2023 on a platform of banning cellphones, and the 23,000-student District 11 did it starting in the fall of 2024. Haffley said that if you ask a group of students what it’s been like to go phone-free, they’ll say they don’t like it…