Starting Tuesday, students in the Los Angeles Unified School District will be banned from using cellphones on campus.
The ban is aimed at improving the educational environment by limiting the use of cellphones and social media during school hours.
“It is well known that based on medical research that the levels of anxiety and young people’s addiction to cellular phones,” said LAUSD superintendent Alberto Carvalho.
Carvalho said about 50 percent of schools are using the honor system, allowing students to keep cellphones and smart devices with them and trusting they will not use them during school hours.
Other schools are taking a different approach.
“Fifty percent of our schools obtained pouches that magnetically seal the phone during the day. The phone is in the possession of the student but inside our guarded pouch,” said Carvalho.
