Protecting our Children: Cellphone policies offer some help for schools

It's a common site at Danville Area High

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School to see cellphones on the lunch table next to unwrapped sandwiches and trays of food and drinks. For students in the Montour County school district, using their devices in the cafeteria is as common as drinking a carton of milk.

It's also in accordance with the district's cellphone policy.

The vast majority of Americans – 95 percent – now own a cellphone of some kind with 73 percent of teens have access to a smartphone; 15 percent have only a basic phone, according to 2015 data from the Pew Research Center. That gives students nearly unlimited access to everything, including social media. It can also offer an open door into what could be 24-hour access to cyberbullying online and has forced school districts to adopt strict yet varied policies regarding phone usage during school hours.

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