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Re: Phone Policy

We don't have a phone policy. Usually it isn't a big deal that they're off-task with their phone, it's usually something else anyways or they're just the kids that's always off-task.

Our school is a 1:1 tech school so most of our students are accustomed to the idea that tech can go both ways.

Honestly, something our team is trying to do is.. use less chairs. Especially our programmers. We've found that offering students places to sit allows them to slack off more, so only certain areas have seats (business, for example) while engineering areas have no seats and we're working on moving programming to some standing desks. The off-task kids don't want to STAND around, they want to SIT around. So we're taking away that option.
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