VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – As parents start preparing for their children to head back to school, the school divisions are also readying a new phone policy.
The Virginia Beach City Public School system started its cell phone-free education this past January. But in late June, it made an additional change: voting high school students were no longer allowed to use their phones during lunch due to the new state policy.
VBCPS school board bans phones for high schools during lunch time
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.
10 On Your Side spoke to Kathleen Brown, Chair of the School Board, about whether that was one of the reasons why they voted to get rid of cell phone use at lunch…