New phone policy significantly improves class performance

New phone policy significantly improves class performance

In the first few weeks of freshman year, a buzzing sound followed me throughout the school day. To most of my peers, the occasional notification or the errant phone call wasn’t a big deal. But coming from a middle school that strictly banned phone use, I wasn’t used to pulling out my phone in classrooms at all — even to upload a photo of classwork or take a picture of a science experiment.  Although the 2023 Palo Alto High Student Handbook prohi…