BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) – A South Carolina Department of Education policy mandates elementary, middle, and high school students to stay off their phones at school.
Statewide, school districts were required to start implementing the policy in January, but it’s something the Beaufort County School District has been doing since the fall.
“It basically provides the opportunity for our students to be able to be free to focus on their learning, right, and our teachers to be free to be able to focus on their teaching,” said Frank Rodriguez, the district’s superintendent…