VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – It’s a discussion that has been happening for months — Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) cell phone-free policy has a new change.
For the 2024-25 school year, all students were not allowed to use their phones during the school day, but high school students were able to bring them out when they went to eat.
New VBCPS cell phone-free policy much like current one
Recently, the school board voted to ban cell phone use during lunch for high schoolers. VBCPS has one lunch for high schoolers, which allows them to leave the cafeteria to get tutoring help or participate in extracurricular activities for 50 minutes.
During the meeting, Chief of Schools Officer Matt Delaney presented the data for cell phone violations in the 2024-2025 school year. The numbers rose four times compared to the previous year, adding that the majority of the violations were at the high school level.
Parents like cell phone ban, with reservations
There were more than 6,600 violations. Breaking those numbers down would be two-per high school each day. But Delaney says they were expecting those numbers…