Students and parents are not happy after North Carolina passed new laws banning cell phones and personal computers.
As of the 2025-2026 school year, all cell phones and personal laptops have been banned from Wake County high schools. Multiple parents purchased new laptops such as Macbooks and Thinkpads for their students with the intent that they would use them in school to improve their learning ability.
Senior, Connor Ja said, “My parents bought me a whole laptop to ditch the Chromebooks, but now I can’t use it anymore. So it’s pretty devastating and the Chromebook is really slow because they’re all the way from 6th grade.”…