PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES

1. Personal Electronic Devices (PED) are classified as phones, tablets, laptops, earbuds, headphones, smartwatches, and similar devices.
2. Students may not use the audio, photographic or video recording functions of the PED. This means that no audio, video, or still picture recording is permitted without prior permission.
3. External speakers (wired or wireless) are prohibited from being brought into the Career Center.
4. Personal PED such as laptops and tablets are not permitted on school premises.

Refusal to surrender a PED to the staff member who directed the student to surrender it will result in disciplinary action.

Cell Phone Policy (In accordance of House Bill 250)
Students may not be in possession of their electronic devices (cell phones, smart watches, etc.) during assigned class times including Study Halls & Personal Learning periods regardless of teacher permission. Classrooms and Career Tech labs will be provided with a device holder in which students will place their silenced devices upon entering and from which they will retrieve their devices when exiting the classroom/lab at the end of the class period. Students may not be in possession when out of the classroom/lab on a hall pass.

NOTE: Cell phones and earbuds/headphones will be permitted during a student’s lunch period.

Earbuds/headphones are not permitted in the hallways.

When a student violates this procedure, the teacher is expected to:
1. Instruct the student to place his/her electronic device on the teacher’s desk;
2. Submit the electronic device to their respective building’s office;
3. Inform administration of any further disciplinary violations (ex. Refusal to surrender device, etc.)

Students will receive disciplinary consequences based on the cumulative number of violations during the entire school year:
● 1st Offense: Warning & the student may retrieve their device at the end of their school day.
● 2nd Offense: 30-minute detention and the student’s parent must come into the school to retrieve the device.

For subsequent offenses the student will be required to surrender all of his/her devices to his/her respective building’s office before attending any classes for the next five consecutive school days that the student attends.
● 3rd-Offense: 60-minute detention and the student’s parent must come into the school to retrieve the device.
● 4th Offense: 120-minute detention and the student’s parent must come into the school to retrieve the device.
● 5th Offense: One-day In-School Detention assignment and the student’s parent must come into the school to retrieve the device.
● 6th Offense: Two-day In-School Detention assignment and the student’s parent must come into the school to retrieve the device.
● 7th Offense: One-day Out-of-School Suspension and the student’s parent must come into the school to retrieve the device.
● 8th Offense: Administrative Discretion and the student’s parent must come into the school to retrieve the device.
*Student’s discipline time (detention, ISD, OSS) may be doubled to allow him/her to retrieve their device at the end of the school day.

High School

Student Handbook

Personal Electronic Devices (Cell Phone Usage)

A/B Lab & Academic Rotations

Daily Schedules

Attendance & Tardiness

Dress Codes

Title IX/Non-Discrimination

Acceptable Use Policy

Textbooks, Workbooks & Chromebooks

Grading/Credit Procedures