Parent Check on Tech, a new advocacy group, wants to see more restrictions on cell phone use in Madison’s schools.
With just about a month to go before the state-mandated deadline for adopting a cell phone policy, the Madison school district is poised to ban cell phone use by high schoolers — but only during classes. A coalition of parents and teachers argues the policy should go further and also ban use between classes, and during lunch. That is, no phone use from starting bell to ending bell.
“Many teachers [say] that when they call for behavior support to help them with a student who refuses to put their phone away, no one comes,” testified Amy Martino, a co-founder of Parent Check on Tech, at a May 18 school board meeting. “Teachers are desperate for more administrative and behavior support, or frankly, any support.”…