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BY CASSANDRA JENKINS & EMILY LINCKE
CISD committee to study limiting cellphone use Conroe ISD announced on social media Aug. 23 the district will convene a School Cell Phone Committee to evaluate its cellphone guidelines. According to the district website, meetings will take place twice a month. Superintendent Curtis Null said he expects it to take three to four months before any action is taken. How it happened Discussion surrounding the idea of limiting student cellphone use in district schools started with a presentation by the School Health Advisory Council to the board of trustees Aug. 1 on the harmful effects on students’ mental health of using cellphones in class. • Teens who spend three hours or more a day on electronic devices are at a 35% higher risk of suicide than those who spend less than one hour on them.
Montgomery ISD’s tax rate to drop Montgomery ISD trustees approved a roughly $0.18 drop year over year for the district’s fiscal year 2023-24 tax rate thanks to property value growth, district leaders said during an Aug. 21 meeting. The present The approved tax rate for FY 2023-24 is $1.0487 per $100 valuation. However, a lower tax rate does not nec- essarily equal a lower tax bill for taxpayers if their values have gone up, as previously reported by Community Impact . The FY 2022-23 tax rate was $1.2289 per $100 valuation. Since FY 2016-17, MISD’s tax rate per $100 valuation has dropped about $0.32 from $1.37 to $1.0487, according to district information.
Phone use in schools A district subcommittee suggested potential future cellphone policy changes. Grades K-8 • Phone use would be limited to before and after school , and phones would be stored during school. Grades 9-12 • Students could access phones during designated times up to 20 minutes a day, not including lunch.
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• Students spending more than three hours per day on social media faced double the risk of experiencing poor mental health including depression and anxiety. The framework A school subcommittee gave a recommendation on how to further adapt the district’s current pol- icy to limit cellphone use. However, all students will still be able to access their phones during campus emergencies, according to the district.
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