new Texas law<\/a>.<\/p>\nNorth East ISD was one of the first districts in our area to outline what that ban will look like when doors open for the new school year.<\/p>\n
It’s not just cellphones. Under the new law, students aren’t allowed to use personal phones, smartwatches, Airpods or tablets during the school day.<\/p>\n
Before the special meeting, the district’s cellphone policy varied from campus-to-campus. After the vote, students must have those devices off and put away from bell-to-bell; however, they can use them during lunch and passing periods.<\/p>\n
“We started doing this before the law mandated it,” Superintendent Sean Maika said. “Unfortunately, we got a law. I worked really hard this legislative session to really help lawmakers understand that not everything has to be legislated.”<\/p>\n
The new law requires districts to allow exceptions for certain education programs and documented needs. Those will be discussed on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n
The law also gives districts room to ban devices from campus altogether, or develop a method of collecting devices at the start of the school day. NEISD says its not doing either of those things.<\/p>\n
Some districts in our area haven’t updated their policies yet. The law goes into effect Sept. 1, but districts have until the 18th to finalize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – North East ISD is dialing up the conversation about a new classroom phone ban. Its…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,23541,20702,69589,78502,7202,7203,69590,6214,78501,358,67743,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-128507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cellphone-ban","10":"tag-neisd","11":"tag-personal-devices","12":"tag-policy-update","13":"tag-san-antonio","14":"tag-sanantonio","15":"tag-school-day","16":"tag-students","17":"tag-superintendent-sean-maika","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-texas-law","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114992052036403666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}