Screen Aware Montclair on the Push to Get Phones and Chromebooks Out of Class
Montclair students are walking into school under a new rule: phones off from the first bell to the last, with no exceptions for a backpack or a back pocket. The change follows New Jersey’s statewide bell-to-bell cell phone law, signed this January. Montclair’s version was laid out in the K-8 Technology Usage Plan that was sent to parents accompanied with a letter from Superintendent Ruth B. Turner on August 25.
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