{"id":13440,"date":"2024-08-01T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:18:09","slug":"no-cel-phones-and-the-kids-dont-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/08\/01\/no-cel-phones-and-the-kids-dont-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"No Cel Phones (and the kids don&#8217;t mind)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themidwesterner.news\/2024\/08\/east-jackson-high-school-students-relieved-after-cell-phone-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Midwesterner<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">East Jackson High School students \u2018relieved\u2019 after cell phone ban<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Superintendent initially expected the phone ban to result in a &#8216;battle,&#8217; but found that wasn\u2019t the case<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themidwesterner.news\/author\/themidwesternerstaff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">THE MIDWESTERNER STAFF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JhwfsKWgkXM\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At East Jackson High School, \u201cengagement is up, and drama is down \u2013 exponentially\u201d after school officials last year banned cell phones in class, according to Principal Joel Cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you take away the compulsion to address Snapchat and TikTok, kids find themselves having to concentrate and participate in some of these debates in the classroom,\u201d he told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/fdr83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MLive<\/a>. \u201cStudents, staff and parents have appreciated it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The district\u2019s PowerSchool data center shows that since school officials required students to stash their phones in their lockers during class beginning last school year, behavioral referrals have declined by 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themidwesterner.news\/2024\/08\/east-jackson-high-school-students-relieved-after-cell-phone-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Midwesterner<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Midwesterner East Jackson High School students \u2018relieved\u2019 after cell phone ban Superintendent initially expected the phone ban to result in a &#8216;battle,&#8217; but found that wasn\u2019t the case BY\u00a0THE MIDWESTERNER STAFF At East Jackson High School, \u201cengagement is up, and drama is down \u2013 exponentially\u201d after school officials last year banned cell phones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}