Jenks High School students walk out of the Jenks Public Schools Math and Science Center on Nov. 13. All public schools in the state must enforce a cellphone ban this year. (Photo by Nuria Martinez-Keel/Oklahoma Voice)
OKLAHOMA CITY — As Oklahoma students return to school in the coming days, they’ll have backpacks on, pencils and laptops ready, and their cellphones out of sight.
For the next year, state law requires all Oklahoma public schools to ban student use of cellphones and personal electronic devices for the entire school day. The only devices exempt from the new law are ones that are school-issued, medically necessary or needed for emergencies…