Kansas & Missouri Confront Mobile Phone Ban Confusion

This post offers updates on phone crackdowns and a quick perspective on the efficacy of the new policy: 

You would be hard-pressed to find someone who thinks students should be distracted by technology during class. 

But after the first school year under Missouri’s new law, there’s no firm agreement on where schools should draw the line on electronic devices, or whether the state was right to make that decision for them.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .

A new set of distractions? Missouri's ban on cellphones in schools still divides

Some appreciate the legal backup for teachers' cellphone policies and say students are socializing more. Others think the ban goes too far.

KASB latest in education establishment to issue guidance conflicting with the law banning cell phones

The law clearly prohibits schools and school employees from using social media to contact students, yet KASB claims otherwise.