Last month, the Greene County School Board approved the first reading of a new policy.

Superintendent Brett Abbotts tells Raccoon Valley Radio the new policy governs cell phone use for district employees. He says this policy has a student supervision and safety aspects to it.

“Some ideas kind of got born out of some concerns that we had with how cell phones were being used in the elementary just for when we needed to call and get support and help there. You know, a supervision issue could be called into question. And we’re also looking at it from a stance of if something were to happen in a classroom, teachers are just used to pulling out their cell phones to call for assistance. There wouldn’t be any kind of foul play kind of going on there, which we know there’s not. We just don’t want the accusations of that happening.”

The second and final reading of this new policy is on this week’s school board agenda. Click the link below to see the new policy.