100 signatures reached
To: BASD Administration and School Board of Directors
BASD Families Want A Bell to Bell Phone Policy!
Student's learning is being negatively impacted by cell phone use during the school day.
Cell phones at school:
Cell phones at school:
- Distract students
- Disrupt cognitive functioning
- Lower test scores
- Decrease retention
- Increase risks for negative mental health
- Pull students away from real life social experiences
- Disrupt emergency protocols
- Provide access for drugs and sexual predators
Tell BASD administrators and directors your student's learning environment needs to be protected with a bell-to-bell cell phone policy. Sign our petition today!
Why is this important?
Thirty four states have passed phone-free legislation. 17 have passed bell-to-bell legislation. These bills have passed with bi-partisan support. Additionally, more than twenty public school districts in PA have already gone phone-free from bell to bell. Their leaders describe this policy as “transformational” for teaching and learning in their schools.
Policies like these:
Policies like these:
- Allow teachers to teach and reduce distractions
- Improve grades, test scores, and cognitive performance
- Reduce cyberbullying and social media drama in the school building
- Maintain calm during emergency situations (best practice according to school safety experts)
Bell-to-Bell Policies have support from nation wide organizations such as the National Education Association, PA Teachers Union, Penn. Association of School Resource Officers, and National Association of School Resource Officers.
Other policies (such as instructional time only policies) burden teachers, distract during safety situations, block opportunities to build critical social skills, and fail to remove the social comparisons and pressures of social media. Bell-to-Bell policies are made with exceptions for students with IEPs/504's or medical needs.
Other policies (such as instructional time only policies) burden teachers, distract during safety situations, block opportunities to build critical social skills, and fail to remove the social comparisons and pressures of social media. Bell-to-Bell policies are made with exceptions for students with IEPs/504's or medical needs.
It's time for Beaver Area School District to continue leading the charge in education by creating and implementing a bell-to-bell phone policy that follows evidence based research.
We want to protect our kids at Beaver Area School District!
-BASD Families
How it will be delivered
Electronically and physically