ANN ARBOR, MI - Amy Vail remembers “when the halls went silent” in local schools.

In between classes, kids used to talk, do homework, read books and horse around, she said. But over the last few years, they’ve increasingly gotten lost in their cellphones.

“I have 15 students who eat in my room every day, and I adore them,” said Vail, a teacher at Pioneer High School and parent of three local students. “Most of them are hunched over their phones. If they interact with each other, it is filtered through their phones.”

Now, roughly three months after parents initially aired concerns before Ann Arbor School Board members this summer, officials will discuss potential policy changes about cellphones at a governance committee meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 21 .

Vail joined an ongoing cho

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