After trying out a cell phone-free policy last spring, the City of New Haven is going full throttle with the plan and implementing it in all its high schools this year.

It’s a decision the district made after noticing the issues phones and social media brought about, which was backed by research.

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“It facilitated, frankly, a lot of fights in our schools where someone would put something up on social media and it would trigger a lot of angry interactions with folks. Our teachers were being cell phone police officers in our schools, which is really not fair to be asking our teachers and parents to be doing that work,” New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said.

The city invested $375,000 to buy Yondr pouches to keep the phon

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