LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Parents gave Lakota school officials an ear full of advice on the school systems’ policies regarding student cell phones and that was exactly what officials were seeking from a recent public forum on the topic.
Hosted by the district with two members of the Lakota Board of Education attending, the recent “community conversation” was the first of this school year and focused on in-school cell phone use prompted by a new Ohio law requires all public school districts to have or update their policies by summer 2025.
According to Lakota officials, district leadership wants to first reach out to school parents and others before making changes to the current policy, which was last updated in 2017.
“A lot of parents want there to be some policy that doesn’t distract their kids from their education but they also want to weigh the balance of safety and how …