ELECTRONIC DEVICES POLICY
Personal Devices (cell phones, smart phones, smart watches)
Expectations:
- Students will not use devices during instructional periods. This includes hallways and restrooms.
- Students may use devices in between periods, during their assigned lunch period, and during study halls.
- All devices are to be kept on silent mode during the school day.
- Camera use and video recording are strictly prohibited unless prescribed for educational purposes.
- Students are not to call, text message, email, or electronically communicate with others from their devices including other students, parents, guardians, friends, and family during instructional time.
- Phone calls during the school day are not to be made from devices. Students may use the main office phone with permission of the classroom/study hall teacher.
- Students are permitted to access only the school’s network through personal devices, not private networks.
- If a student chooses to bring a device to Hopewell High School they agree to full transparency and will be prepared to show their device to any school personnel at any time.
- Students are not permitted to use devices during detention, TOC, Saturday Detention, or attendance makeup.
- Maintenance, repair, updates or any technical difficulties related to devices are the sole responsibility of the owner, not District personnel.
- Students are not permitted to wear smart watches during school hours.
- First offense – confiscation of device, one day of TOC, device returned to student at end of the day.
- Second offense – TOC (two days), confiscation of device, parent required to pick up device and the student loses device privileges for 45 school days.
- Third offense – TOC (three days), confiscation of device, parent required to pick up device, and the student loses device privileges for 45 school days.
- Fourth offense – out of school suspension, the student loses device privileges for remainder of school year and is assigned a 45 day social suspension.