DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa Capitol Bureau) – Governor Kim Reynolds says she’ll propose a cell phone ban for Iowa students in the classroom in the next legislative session.
Reynolds says she’s heard success stories from those districts who banned cellphones just while in class and from others who ban them all day except for at lunch.
The Governor says whatever she puts forward, she wants to make sure that she’s respectful to the work that some districts have already done.
“I wanna supplement that and enhance that. I don’t wanna really step on anything that they’ve done. So, it’ll probably be more of a floor is what we’re looking at but just to encourage people to really move in the right, move in that direction, you know, at time, in time,” she said.
Reynolds says these cell phone bans are causing kids to connect with each other again …