Florida wrestling with whether to ban phones in more schools

Jack Hayes wasn’t looking for trouble. So when an administrator from Boone High in Orlando caught the 17-year-old student on his phone – a restricted device on campus – Hayes handed it over.

He didn’t explain that he wasn’t doing anything inappropriate. He wasn’t on social media. He wasn’t sharing homework answers with a friend.

He was reading a message from fellow members of the student government who said they would be congregating in a different classroom for their meeting that day…

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