DARTMOUTH – The Dartmouth Excessive group is buzzing – however cell telephones will not be this college 12 months. College students will now need to drop gadgets on the door.
“Each time we get a textual content or an alert or buzz, our eyes go off our studying and we miss part of the lesson,” Principal Ryan Shea identified.
“It is type of humorous after they’re going by way of TikTok or one thing they usually by accident have the quantity on. It is hilarious! Sure in fact it may be distracting to different college students,” a Dartmouth senior mentioned.
The principal compares the ‘cell lodges’ to a dangling shoe organizer on a closet door. College students caught with their telephones at school will face penalties starting from 5 minutes after college to a dad or mum assembly.
Any issues will be mentioned on the subsequent college committee assembly on August twenty second.
“If we’re placing all of our telephones in the identical spot, who’s to say somebody cannot go as much as the basket and take my cellphone,” an incoming freshman puzzled.
However many mother and father appear delighted over a little bit distance with gadgets.
“It is proper there, it isn’t prefer it’s below lock and key someplace. It’s proper there the place everybody can see it. Everybody can go and seize it. I like that concept,” a Dartmouth mom mentioned of the plan.
