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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Tennessee bill to let schools ban, collect cell phones gains bipartisan support

A Tennessee bill that would authorize school districts to pass policies banning cell phone use during instructional time gained bipartisan support and unanimously passed its first House subcommittee hearing this week. 

The proposed legislation, sponsored by state Rep. Rebecca Alexander (R-Jonesborough) and state Sen. Ferrell Haile (R-Gallatin), would also allow districts to pass policies requiring students to hand over their phones at the beginning of the school day.

7 comments:

  1. We've had that policy for years in the upstate of SC, at least where our granddaughter went to school.

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  2. Wouldn't it be cheaper and quicker to just deploy a secret cellphone jammer?

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    1. No! Govt shall have no secrets.

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    2. No, there's no way to limit the jammer to classrooms.

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  3. Great idea. When I was in school I survived the 1950s without one. In addition my parents survived with a black rotary dial set on a 4 party line at that time as well. Coincidentally we had no self-promoting fags, trannies, BLMers and other mental cases then either. Life was good.

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  4. In grammar school in the 50's, I was carrying a pocket knife, as were many other boys. The only thing the teacher said was, "If I see it, it's mine." She said the same thing about marbles. How about a rule like that for cell phones?

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  5. Stupid law. If the schools rules already prohibit the use of cell phones in class....then start enforcing the rules you already have. Phones are property, and they can be expensive enough to turn 'confiscate' into 'grand theft.'

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