Does the school still care about phones? It seems like now teachers are confiscating phones less and less. At the beginning of the school year, just about every day teachers would take phones to the office, and kids would complain about how teachers would take their phones, but now nobody ever hears about phones anymore. Why? Does the school just not care about phones anymore, or are teachers becoming more lenient, and is that a good or a bad thing?

At Delta School district, there’s a known policy regarding phones. Students may not be on their phones in class at all. When the school first introduced this policy, it seemed to stick more as kids who were caught on their phones got them taken away.

The 2025-2026 school year is the second school year this policy has been in place, and yet it feels as if the policy never existed, but why is that?

“I feel like teachers have become more lenient and don’t really care because it’s not really a distraction unless the teacher is teaching,” Kortlan Bynum, a sophomore at Delta high school said.

The policy is that when people get their phones taken away, they are supposed to be taken to the office, and there will be a call home. Teachers may feel as if taking a phone to the office every time a student gets caught is unnecessary, especially if they catch a student every class period which could be why some teachers may still allow it.

“I think some teachers allow it still to happen but I do think it’s [the policy] helped,” Rosie Johnson the principal at Delta High School said.

Students have never been big fans of the cell phone policy and multiple times they simply choose to ignore it. “I think that students go on their phone just because it’s easier to use than getting on a computer,” said Lily Gallegos. “If phones become a bigger source of distraction, it will become a bigger thing to focus on, but for now if it’s too distracting it shouldn’t be a huge deal” said Gallegos.