Just weeks into the school year, Central Unified administrators, teachers and students say the district’s new phone-free campus policy is already changing behavior both inside and outside the classroom.
At Central East High School, students in a sports medicine class recently focused on learning how to properly tape ankles. During the lesson, there was one notable difference from previous years: no one was distracted by a cellphone.
That is because students are now required to lock their phones in Yondr pouches from the first bell until dismissal…