Personal Electronic Devices

Lucile Erwin Personal Electronic Device (Cell Phones, Headphones, Tablets, Smart Watches ) Policy Away for the Day!

Lucile Erwin Middle School wishes to provide each student and teacher a distraction-free learning environment every school day. Research shows that when access to personal electronic devices is moderated during the school day, students are more engaged socially and academically. For more information and research on the effects of cell phones and other personal electronic devices on middle school students, please visit awayfortheday.org.

To ensure such a learning environment, LEMS implemented the following cell phone/personal electronic device (PED) policy. Please review the specifics of this policy with your student. We will also go over it with students when they return to school in the fall.

Cell phones and/or any personal electronic devices (PEDs - any device that can connect wirelessly to a network) may be brought to school; however, these items must remain off or silent and placed in the student’s locker or binder for the entire school day. Specifically, this includes periods before school, lunch, hallways, and other unstructured times. For the purposes of Lucile Erwin’s policy and to ensure a distraction-free learning environment, this also prohibits the personal use of wireless headphones, earbuds, and Airpods in all spaces. Students may use corded headphones with their Chromebooks when given teacher permission. Having a cell phone or PED is a privilege, not a right as defined by Thompson School District Board Policy (JS).