{"id":264056,"date":"2026-01-26T02:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264056\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:07:15","slug":"cell-phone-ban-at-jhs-wlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264056\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Ban at JHS? \u2013 WLDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacksonville school board has been asked to consider a cell phone ban at Jacksonville High School.<\/p>\n<p>No phones are allowed to be used at Jacksonville Middle School. Cell phones can be used during the lunch break and between classes at the high school.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.Dimondbros.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20211217_101313.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville school superintendent Steve Ptacek says the school board has been asked to look at banning cell phones, for mental health reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Ptacek says numerous studies indicate the ill effects of cell phone usage among teens. The request came from a parent.<\/p>\n<p>Ptacek says the Middle School ban of cell phones came after reports of fights started by cell phone messages. The high school has had no such issues.<\/p>\n<p>He says the board will, at least, look at the parent\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Ptacek says the issue will appear in the next school board meeting agenda, as a discussion item, but not an action item.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jacksonville school board has been asked to consider a cell phone ban at Jacksonville High School. No&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-264056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}