ACHS yearbook editor-in-chief Gabby James said the district’s new policy preventing students from emailing each other during the school day makes it difficult to carry out her responsibilities.”Email is just one of the new policies and recommendations Ark City students are facing this year, affecting their everyday school experience.USD 470 communications director Alisha Call said the district created a task force last year to take an in-depth look at how technology privileges were being used during school hours. The information gathered by the task force was then used to develop new screen-time guidelines.This follows up last year’s bell-to-bell cell phone ban, which is now a statewide law.
