Every morning Hankins Middle School students check their cell phones in with their homeroom teacher, who stores them in an assigned slot in a locked box. The st
Almost the entire NBC 15 neighborhood is under a slight risk of severe weather. We could see up to 2 inches of rain.udents don't get them back until the end of the school day.
Verkouille says it's already against the rules to have a cell phone turned on and out in class. He says teachers were spending way too much time enforcing the policy, and it was taking away from instructional time. So this school year, he started the daily process of taking the phones.
"Not having that cell phone out where they're listening to music, or texting one another, or potentially cheating or whatever, distracting, I have to believe that it's going to help academically," said Mobile County Public Schools Board President Don Stringfellow.
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