Community House Middle School Cell Phone and Electronic Devices

Guidelines and Consequences

Cell phones and electronic devices can pose a disruption to the educational environment and should be turned off and kept in the book bag during the school day unless under the academic direction of the teacher. 

Guidelines

• If a cell phone is IN USE or on a student’s body (in their pocket) during the school day, it will be confiscated and returned to a parent/guardian at the end of the day in the main office.

• If a cell phone is IN USE or on a student’s body a second time during the school day, it will be confiscated for 5 consecutive days. 

• A parent or guardian must retrieve the cell phone from the school front office after the 5 days have lapsed. 

• All other electronic devices not being used under the academic direction of a staff member (video games, Ipods, tablets, etc.) will be confiscated and can be retrieved by a parent in the same manner. 

Consequences

• Since this is a school guideline, students may be subject to consequences under the Insubordination Rule in the Rights and Responsibilities Handbook for repeated incidents of failure to follow this guideline.

KEEP THEM OFF AND OUT-OF-SIGHT!

** Cell phones must not be used or seen until AFTER you have been dismissed from and exited the school building each afternoon.