Paul Phillips, a grandparent of two students in Chesapeake Public Schools, believes cellphones should not be allowed for personal use during the school day.
“They can be a distraction,” he said. “Texting, phone calls between students…that would cause a distraction.”
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Phillips and his wife were part of a small audience Thursday night at Chesapeake Public School headquarters where they watched and listed to a remote discussion streamed by Virginia’s First Lady Suzanne Youngkin.
The focus: cell phone use in schools.
“Virginia is in the very bull’s eye,” Youngkin said.
The First Lady streamed the conversation to school districts across the commonwealth live from Old Bridge Elementary School in Prince William County.
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VDOE releases proposed rules for cell phone use in school