{"id":182323,"date":"2024-08-11T21:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T02:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=182323"},"modified":"2024-08-11T21:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T02:01:48","slug":"vwhs-announces-new-cell-phone-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/08\/11\/vwhs-announces-new-cell-phone-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"VWHS announces new cell phone policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective August 20, Van Wert High School will begin enforcing the new&nbsp;student technology policy&nbsp;for the 2024\/2025 school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert High School will allow students to bring their Personal Communication Devices (PCDs), including personal laptops, tablets, iPads, smart watches, cell phones and earbuds\/headphones into the building during the school day. However, PCDs should be powered off and secured in students&#8217; assigned academic lockers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students may use PCDs and other portable electronic devices in the<br>building during the following designated times within the guidelines listed below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Before school, until the bell rings at 7:55 a.m.<\/li><li>After school, when the bell rings at 2:38 p.m.<\/li><li>During their lunch periods, only while in the cafeteria (commons).<\/li><li>In a teacher\u2019s classroom, if instructed by the teacher and approved by the administration.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In case of an emergency, parents\/guardians may reach student by calling the high school office at 419.238.3350. All high school classrooms have phones\\ which can be used to contact students through the office during emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff\/submitted information Effective August 20, Van Wert High School will begin enforcing the new&nbsp;student technology policy&nbsp;for the 2024\/2025 school year. Van Wert High School will allow students to bring their Personal Communication Devices (PCDs), including personal laptops, tablets, iPads, smart watches, cell phones and earbuds\/headphones into the building during the school day. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 19:29:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182353,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182323\/revisions\/182353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}