Shawnee Mission Schools review cell phone policy

Heidi Schmidt, KCTV 5

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Consistency is the lesson Shawnee Mission School District teachers and principals learned was key when they created and implemented a personal electronics policy earlier this year.

Now a new school year later, principals checked in with the school board and said they could see and hear the difference.

“One of my favorite things is if you come to Indian Hills or any middle school, come at lunch. You will see 300 kids, three rotations, eat, but talk to each other. They bring Uno cards to lunch. It is so fun to hear their voices rather than them staring at their phones,” Dr. Kelley Capper, Principal Indian Hills Middle School, said.

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