GRPS implements cell phone lockers at High & Middle School levels

  • Photo by Scott Bidroski Mrs. Kacy Heiser (left) and GRHS junior Amara Funk (right) show off the new cell phone lockers at Gordon-Rushville High School. A new policy has been implemented to help limit distractions for the students during the school day.
    Photo by Scott Bidroski Mrs. Kacy Heiser (left) and GRHS junior Amara Funk (right) show off the new cell phone lockers at Gordon-Rushville High School. A new policy has been implemented to help limit distractions for the students during the school day.

    Schools across the country have tried many methods for dealing with the distraction of cell phones. This varies from letting students carry and use their phones, to keeping phones out of sight and in their pockets, to outright bans.

    Many schools have gone with a, “keep cell phones out of sight” policy at the high school level. This sounds great and it takes an attitude of out of sight-out of mind. …