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position_statement_cell_phone_use.pdfPOSITION STATEMENT AND POLICY GUIDANCE Personal Technology Use in Connecticut Schools, August 2024
To support a school community in which students can fully engage with their classmates, their teachers, and instruction, cell phone use by students during school hours is limited.
This policy's objective is to strengthen the focus on learning, in alignment with our mission to teach and learn with passion and purpose.
To achieve this goal, cell phones will be placed in classroom caddies during instructional time.
Use of any such device for an improper purpose is prohibited. Improper purposes include, but are not limited to:
Sending any form of harassing, threatening, or intimidating message, at any time, to any person (such communications may also be a crime);
Gaining or seeking to gain unauthorized access to Board technology resources;
Damaging Board technology resources;
Accessing or attempting to access any material that is obscene or contains pornography;
Cyberbullying;
Taking pictures without the specific permission of the subject of the picture;
Using a privately owned technological device to violate any school rules, including the unauthorized recording (photographic or audio) of another individual without the permission of the individual or a school staff member or
Taking any action prohibited by any Federal or State law.
Operating Principles for Use of Personal Devices on School Campus
2. Students must immediately comply with teachers' requests to shut down devices or close the screen.
Devices must be in silent mode and put away when asked by teachers.
3. Students are not permitted to transmit or post photographic images/videos of any person on campus on public
and/or social networking sites.
13. Personal devices may not be used to send inappropriate e-messages during the school day.
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