Starting this school year MCHS has a new phone policy for students and staff.
Kandace Carlton/Journalism Class
October 14, 2022

Administration within McDonald County High School enacted a new phone policy for the 2022-2023 school year. With this new policy, students aren’t allowed to have their phones out with the exception of lunch and passing periods.
MCHS senior Mackenzie Young said she has seen a positive effect due to the phone policy.
“Slightly positively, I'm on my phone less,” Young said. “I feel like it makes things more interesting as in figuring out how to hide it when you do use it,” Young said, with a smile on her face.
Young said she feels as if her work is completed quicker and that she focuses more on her work in class without her phone.
“Work is definitely completed quicker,” Young said. “I'm able to focus more on it.”
With all of the positive things Young said about the phone policy, she said she doesn’t support the phone policy and feels as if she is being babied.
“It feels like we’re being babied,” Young said. “To be honest, it feels like we are being treated like kindergarteners,” Young said with an annoyed tone to her voice.
MCHS history teacher Lea Anne Bunting said she has seen a positive impact on the students' grades since the phone policy was created.
“I have seen a change,” Bunting said. “I have a lot fewer kids on the F-list,” Bunting said.
Bunting said she has also seen a difference in how students interact with one another.
“Most of my seminar was just glazed over on their phones last year,” Bunting said. “They’re playing games with each other, they talk to each other."
Bunting said she thinks the school will continue this policy in the following years, adding the phone policy teaches students skills they need as adults.
If the phone policy goes well this year school administration will likely enact it in following years.
Comments