Educators statewide have expressed support for prohibiting mobile devices in classrooms

A Seneca Valley school counselor testified before Pennsylvania Senate committees on cellphone policy as momentum for restricting mobile device use in schools grows.

Lisa Graham, a counselor at Seneca Valley Intermediate High School, spoke on the district’s “bell-to-bell’ policy, which prohibits students from using their cellphone from the first to last bell of the school day. Graham shared with legislators the “early, significant impact” of the policy.

“Three months into the school year, the impact of the ‘Bell-to-Bell’ policy has been overwhelmingly positive,” Graham said, according to a district news release. “The most immediate and noticeable change we’ve seen is the increase in student face-to-fa

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