GBH: Cellphone ban proposed for Mass. schools
January 24, 2025
Schools are wrestling with how to manage students and their cellphones — devices that can aid student learning or distract from it, and at their worst, provoke violence.
Students have recorded video of fights breaking out at Brockton High School and lunchroom brawls in Revere, posting them on social media to gain popularity or antagonize an enemy.
Now Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has proposed a statewide ban on cellphones in schools under the STUDY Act, short for…
