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High school's "bell to bell, no cell" rule reported working

Piute County School District · By Ben Guzovsky · Published Oct 27, 2026, 12:18 AM UTC · Board record: Feb 10, 2026

Day-to-day

Rhyolite from the Miocene of Utah, USA.
Rhyolite is a felsic, aphanitic, extrusive igneous rock. If erupted as lava (versus rhyolite ash or tephra from an explosive eruption), rhyolite flows very slowly because it is high-viscosity. Its flow style is sometimes likened to toothpaste oozing from a tube.
This rhyolite sample shows flow banding and flow lineations. The feature from lower left to upper right is a fault. Angular clasts of the host rhyolite are caught up in the fault zone, forming — James St. John · by

What happened

Piute High School uses a "bell to bell, no cell" rule, so students keep phones put away for the whole school day. The principal told the board it has been very positive and that mental health and discipline problems have gone down.

Why it matters to families

Phone rules shape every student's school day. This is the school's own report; the written policy itself was not in the collected records.

The evidence

February 10, 2026 approved minutes, Piute High School principal report.

The source

Approved February 2026 board minutes

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