FRANKFORT, Ky. ( FOX 56 ) — It’s probably no surprise that cell phones can be among the worst distractions for teachers in the classroom.
“Kids could be texting each other, not focused on what the teachers teaching. They could be playing a game on the phone, they could be watching someone on the phone on YouTube. They could be on social media on the phone. I’ve seen it previously in other schools where it’s been—it was an issue with that,” Bourbon Co. Middle School Principal Littleton Ward told FOX 56. Ward is in his first year as principal at the school and is trying a new policy, keeping phones out of the classroom altogether.
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“They put those cell phones up in the lockers, in their lockers, in a way out of sight and out of mind,” he said.
If they’re caught, the phone is confiscated, and parents have to come pick it up if it happens more than once. There are exceptions for emergencies.