No cell phones in the classroom in Clovis Unified

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- From doorbell to bell, the Clovis Unified School District is wanting to punctual students to tuck distant their physics devices portion wrong the classroom.

"This is present astir making definite we're consistently enforcing it crossed campuses and making definite that 1 of our teachers besides understands what their relation is and what the schoolhouse medication is going to owed to enactment that arsenic well," said Clovis Unified Chief Communications Officer, Kelly Avants.

The territory has maintained a nary compartment telephone argumentation successful the schoolroom for astatine slightest the past 10 years.

"I deliberation immoderate of the genitor anxiousness comes from, what happens if thing occurs astatine school, I privation my kid to beryllium capable to scope me. We're not taking phones distant from kids, erstwhile saying they can't bring them to campus," said Avants.

When students are successful the classroom, phones indispensable beryllium enactment away. Teachers bash person the right, for teaching purposes, to let students to usage an physics device.

She adds, utilizing compartment phones to station connected societal media oregon grounds video oregon audio is not permitted unless advised by a unit member.

"Anytime that we tin region barriers, and we tin find ways for our students to beryllium involved, it's gonna help," said Clovis Unified School Principal Joshua Shapiro.

He said helium joined different principals successful the territory to travel up with a disciplinary program of action.

Students volition get a warning, past their telephone volition get taken distant for the day. If compartment phones wrong the schoolroom continue, the teacher volition get the student's parents involved.

Sharpiro said compartment phones are not lone distracting to learning portion successful the classroom, but it besides becomes a societal distraction.

"We're conscionable trying to enactment our students who privation to beryllium engaged. And we privation our students to consciousness connected to our schoolhouse and to the adults who privation to enactment them arsenic well,"

Administrators accidental if a genitor needs to get successful interaction with their kid, schools volition ever person lines of connection open.

Clovis Unified schools commencement the caller twelvemonth connected Monday.

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