A new policy regarding phone usage will soon surface in Glacier Peak. Because students are using their phones in an extreme rate during classes, Snohomish District is taking a step to completely remove this issue with a new policy. With this policy students will now be fully prohibited in using their phones during class and will serve consequences if not followed. After hearing about this announcement, there is a wide spectrum of feelings regarding it like how some students are going to be down now that they cannot use their phone during class. “The new phone policy is weird, I never really like used my phone out of place, it was only if there was nothing happening during class. Now I can’t use my phone at all,” Peyton Thaing said.

With this new policy, the Snohomish School District will hope to fully expel the phone usage during class, as using phones may hinder student learning and staff teaching. There are students that use their phones during class and are not going to like the outcome of this policy, while there are also students that don’t use their phones much at all that are not going to care much about this policy. These students did not really use their phones in the first place, using only if needed or required. “I don’t really care all that much, I only really used my phone if the school day are chill, but other than that I didn’t use my phone that much at all,” Landon Theaker said.

Overall, this policy is a step towards better learning and a more healthy education for all students. There are many mixed feelings about no more phones during classes, either not caring too much about the policy or being sad that students cannot use their device freely anymore. With the upcoming semester, all students will be expected to follow through with this new policy, even though some may want to use their phones. “I mean I like the idea of the new phone policy, and hopefully students will follow through and stuff. I probably won’t use my phone that much anymore now with the new policy but I might still want to text people,” Rowan Ohl said.