×A smiling student with long blonde hair using her smartphone in a school hallway by the lockers

Hoover school officials say the new state law requiring students to keep cellphones turned off and off their person during the school day so far hasn’t been problematic.

On the first day of school, by noon, there were just four students at Hoover High who had to be reminded of the law and school system policy, and there was just one incident of a student with headphones at Spain Park by that time, Chief Administrative Officer Bob Lawry told the school board Tuesday night.

“We’ve got great kids. We’ve got great administrators and great teachers,” Lawry said. “Everybody came together understanding this is a law and it’s for their benefit, and they’ve all pulled together and they’ve unified. It

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