As of last year Baldwin High School enforced a cell phone policy. Students were told to put their phones in a phone caddy until that class was over.

Students are allowed to have their phones during passing period, lunch and before and after school. 

While in class they have to put it in a phone caddy, but sometimes some teachers let them just keep it in their backpack. 

Most students don’t like the new phone policy.

“I honestly do not like it, because it doesn’t help students focus because they are always going to be worried about what’s going off when they get a notification,” Sophomore Heather Hale said. 

The phone policy just started in the 2024-2025 school year. This was new for the upper grades, mostly because they weren’t used to having to put their phones up before class started. 

“Honestly we do need to have something set in motion for a phone policy, because there are some students who need to learn how to time manage,” English teacher Leslie Jessip said.

The phone policy was put in place to try to incline students attention and focus to school, it was also a hope of declining cyberbullying during the school hours. 

“I don’t really think it does much with helping students focus, considering they find ways to get onto social media or their phones during school,” Junior Keziah Moses said. 

“I think the phone policy is pretty good but I feel like we could be a little more lenient if students are done with their homework, like in seminar,” Biology teacher Renae Linke said.