EVANSVILLE — In Ohio, Dayton Public Schools has come up with a way to ensure classrooms are cell phone-free that costs about a quarter per student.
Students at Dayton’s Dunbar High School hand over their phones at the beginning of the school day, and they are stored in labeled, padded manila envelopes in the front office. Students line up to receive the devices back at day’s end. It takes minutes, and some staff involvement, in a school that serves about 550 students.
“We’ve proven it,” Dayton Superintendent David Lawrence told NBC News in September. “I don’t think that it has to be expensive to have a cell phone-free campus.”…