{"id":60596,"date":"2025-03-05T19:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T00:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60596"},"modified":"2025-03-05T19:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T00:57:19","slug":"cell-phones-to-stay-off-next-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2025\/03\/cell-phones-to-stay-off-next-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell phones to stay \u2018off\u2019 next school year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2025-2026 School Code of Conduct was approved Tuesday, which includes a provision that all personal wireless communication devices must be turned off and in a student\u2019s backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-81-2-png.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60597\" style=\"width:303px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The new code, passed by the Lee County School Board without discussion, states that&nbsp;<em>\u201cStudents may possess personal wireless communication devices while on school grounds during regular hours. This includes, but is not limited to cell phones, and\/or auxiliary\/ancillary devices such as watches, earbuds, or smart glasses. At all levels, all personal WCDs must be turned off and in the student\u2019s book bag at all times.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It further states that they are permitted, when approved, to monitor a health condition that is documented through medical records and indicated as needed in a health plan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025-2026 School Code of Conduct was approved Tuesday, which includes a provision that all personal wireless communication devices must be turned off and in a student\u2019s backpack. The new&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[3002],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60598,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60596\/revisions\/60598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}