At Ogden High School, the expectation is that when students are in class, their cellphones are stowed in their backpacks or purses.
Violators run the risk of their phones being placed in a locker in the classroom. Repeat offenders’ phones can be taken to the school office for additional consequences with parental involvement.
The restrictions were put in place at Ogden High after Utah Gov. Spencer Cox urged school leaders to support a policy halting cellphone use during class time. Rachel Trotter, whose daughter attends the school, supports the restrictions.
“Teachers need to be able to look those kids in the eyes and talk to them,” Trotter said. “If they’re looking at their phones, then they can’t do that very well, you know. It’s a good practice.”
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Most Utahns support limiting cellphone use during instructional time, according to a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll.
Sixty-nine percent of Utahns said they supported the policy, while 26% were opposed and 6% said they “don’t know.”