Cellphone restrictions are coming to Burnaby classrooms next year, but exactly what that will look like has yet to be determined, according to the school district. The provincial government announced in January it was taking steps to keep children and youth safe from online threats, including restricting cellphone use in school.
The province said it would work with school districts to ensure "all schools have policies in place by the start of the next school year to be able to restrict students' cellphone use in the classroom." The Burnaby school district will be in full compliance with any provincial directives, according to deputy superintendent Roberto Bombelli, but those directives have yet to be clarified. "The announcement was fairly general and broad based," he said in an interview with the NOW last month, "and so now the detail of that is being hashed out, and then we’ll get a better understanding of what's required for September and make sure we have it in plac