Students Full of Questions About Cellphone Ban in North Dakota Schools

Members of the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Student Cabinet. (Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)

(By: Michael Achterling. North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota student leaders say they have a lot of unanswered questions after lawmakers passed a law requiring schools to be cellphone-free.

Members of the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Student Cabinet met  in Bismarck to discuss new legislation that will affect students.

Senate Bill 2354, which takes effect Aug. 1, prohibits public school students from having access to cellphones and other electronic devices in school from “bell to bell.”

But the students raised a lot of questions lawmakers may not have considered. Some students said laptops provided by schools are “horrible” and wondered if they could continue using personal laptops to do school work.