Wauwatosa School District Impose Cell Phone Restrictions for New School Year

WAUWATOSA -- When Wauwatosa students go back to school on Sep. 1, they will face new cell phone restrictions district-wide after a new policy was put in place to limit their distracting influence during school hours.

District Superintendent Phil Ertl sent an e-mail to parents last week, informing parents that their children will be "prohibited from using or displaying cell phones in plain sight during the school day." Students could have their phones confiscated and "appropriate disciplinary consequences will be assigned," Ertl wrote of students who fail to comply with the new policy.

"I've recognized it to be something that gets in the way of learning," Ertl said in an interview with Wauwatosa NOW last week. Students may still keep their cell phones in their backpacks or pockets, but they need to be silenced and not used, he went on to say.

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