A new policy that places restrictions on cellphone use in the Corona-Norco Unified School District is going into effect this school year, joining a growing trend on campuses throughout the U.S.
“We were seeing that it was becoming a bigger and bigger distraction in the classrooms, with students, with teachers, with instruction,” Dr. Kelli Jakubik, an administrator with Corona-Norco Unified, said in an interview with ABC7. “I would see kids at tables communicating through cell phones, and asking who they’re talking to, and they would point at the person next to them.”
This year in the school district, cellphone use will be cut dramatically, at least inside the classroom. But unlike some policies other districts have put in place, Corona-Norco Unified students won’t have to lock them up at the beginning of the day…