NYC school considering cell phone lockers

After months of outrage over a ban on cell phones in the nation's largest school system, officials are exploring whether to install special lockers outside schools to store the devices, reports the AP.

''But questions remain about the logistics of such a system in a school district with so many students - and so many students who use cell phones.

''I wish it would work, but I just know it won't,'' said Dorothy Giglio, a co-president of the Parent Teacher Association at James Madison High School. ''I have almost 4,300 students in my building. I cannot envision 4,300 lockers in front of the building.''

The locker proposal follows New York's move last year to step up its scrutiny of what gets in and out of schools - a move aimed primarily at finding weapons. Along the way, schools confiscated thousands of student cell phones. Students have responded by sneaking phones inside their lunches and under their clothes. Students also sometimes pay neighborhood stores small fees to hold their phones for them during the school day.
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