The return to school this month marked a new phone policy for some Virginia school divisions, but not Henrico County.
While other districts such as Richmond City and Hanover County have adopted the Virginia Department of Education’s recommended “bell-to-bell” phone ban , which restricts students from having their phone on them from the first bell until the dismissal bell, Henrico has so far stuck with its current phone policy, which it first adopted at the start of this school year.
The current HCPS policy requires middle and high school students to put their phones away during all classes, either in a division-provided pouch or lockbox or in their backpack, but allows students to have phones out between classes and at lunch. While the Henrico School Board is not set to make any immediate changes to the phone policy, they will review it along with the rest of HCPS’ Code of Student Conduct later this spring, Cox said…