By: Gabriel Ahmed
As time progresses and students become more cell phone dependent, it is a clear fact that students have become more focused on their phones instead of their schoolwork.
Sandia, along with all other APS schools, have started to work on a system that will prevent students from being on their phones when attention is needed. They have joined many schools in making a new cell phone policy, set to be put into effect by the beginning of the next school year. The system aims to engage students more in the classroom by giving them a set of rules and guidelines to abide by. The guidelines are as follows:
all students must turn in all cellular devices to a pocket in the classroom and it must stay there until the end of the class. If they do not do so, the phone will be confiscated and returned to the student after the class. If they are caught with a cellular device after they have been told to turn it in, it will be confiscated until the end of the class. The second violation will result in the phone being taken by the teacher and sent to the office, where the student's guardian will have to pick it up after school. The third violation will result in a teacher confiscating it and giving it to the office until at least four hours of lunch detention have been completed. Then and only then can the student retrieve their phone. The fourth and final violation will result in the phone being confiscated by the teacher and being sent to the office where it will stay there for the remainder of the semester.
This new policy is going to take some getting used to, and it will raise some problems or concerns, but APS deems that it will be beneficial to the students in the long run. “The new policy will take some kids time to get used to and others no time at all. The students who struggle with being on their phone a majority of the day are the ones that I feel will struggle most,” Chance Akins, a freshman attending Sandia, explains.
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