1. a) What is a school’s purpose for prohibiting students from keeping their phones in class?
b) What is the unintended consequence of taking students’ phones during class? (Describe the irony.)

2. Teachers try different ways to eliminate students’ stress over being parted from their phones. List three policies teachers have used.

3. How are students reacting? - Why did student Olamide Oladitan change his mind about his school’s use of Yondr pouches?

4. What do you think of Fort Worth teacher Jayne Lawrence’s approach of rewarding students who are able to use self-control?

5. How did parents from Roosevelt High School in Seattle react to the new school-wide policy?

6. Consider and answer the following questions:

• Is a school-wide policy better, or should each teacher establish their own rules?
• Should every school district implement a district-wide cellphone policy? (elementary, middle and high school?)
• How might developing good device habits now help you in college? in a career?
• Should parents develop a device policy at home? Explain your answer.
• Some argue teens need to learn self-discipline. But many teens say “I know I spend too much time on it, but I can’t help myself.” What role should adults have in helping/training/teaching students self-discipline?
• Why is it easier for adults than for high school and middle school students to develop self-discipline on their own?

7. Today’s Daily News Article is a human interest news story. Human interest stories differ from the regular news – they are sometimes referred to as “the story behind the story.“ The major news articles of the day tell of important happenings. Human interest stories tell of how those happenings have impacted the people or places around the story.
Do you think this human interest story is newsworthy? Why or why not?