(TNS) — As the school year nears for 1.1 million public school students in Washington, most of them will start the year with some sort of sweeping restriction on when, where and how they can use their cellphones on campus.
A survey by the state authority on public schools, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, found that most of Washington’s 295 school districts are starting the year with a phone ban in some fashion. Many policies are new this year, some only a year or two old.
Three-fourths of all districts have an updated policy, the survey found, with over half of those prohibiting use during class time and around 30 percent barring use for the entire school day…