Cellular phones banned at school?

DAVENPORT — Should cell phones be disallowed at school? That was among the topics of conversation at a school board meeting Monday, July 31.

Superintendent Chad Prewitt posed the question to the board after reports that the Reardan-Edwall School District and Peninsula School District had enacted some form of a cell phone ban amongst students during school hours.

The conversation indeed went a step further to unanimous action in Reardan, where the school board voted to disallow cell phones and other communication devices in most instances Wednesday, July 26.

“It’s probably the most strict polic...