District policy · 2026-2027
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District
Somerset County · K-12 district · Grades 9-12
Last verified · policy year 2026-2027 · adopted September 1, 2026
Stricter than the state
Read this entry with one caveat
Verified from the principal's letter to Bridgewater-Raritan High School families. It is a high-school letter, not a district-wide policy document, so we do not claim it describes the district's elementary or middle schools. It is recorded as stricter than the state minimum because the ban on smart glasses reaches beyond the school day: they are "not permitted on campus or at school events."
Period by period
2 of 6 not yet verifiedEach row is either something this district’s own document says, or an explicit admission that we have not found it. We never infer one period from another. Passing time, lunch and study hall, the three periods the statute never mentions, are marked with an amber rule.Q8
- Class time
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Instructional time. Restricted under the statute itself.
- Passing timeNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Between classes. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- LunchNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.On-campus lunch. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- Study hallNot named in the statute
- Not allowed
- Phones and other personal internet-enabled devices are prohibited.Study hall. NJDOE guidance restricts it; the statute never mentions it.
- School bus
- Not yet verified
- We have not found a source that states this district's rule for this period. We have not guessed one.State guidance permits phones on buses unless the district goes further. A district rule here is stricter than the state floor.
- Before and after school
- Not yet verified
- We have not found a source that states this district's rule for this period. We have not guessed one.State guidance permits phones outside the school day unless the district goes further.
How phones are stored
A local choice, not a state oneLocker or collected bin
Phones are left in a hall locker or handed in to a central bin.
Students "should store devices in their school-provided lockers for the entire day, from first bell to dismissal," or in their vehicle if they have parking privileges. If a student does not use a locker, the device must still be "powered off and not on their body."
What happens if the rule is broken
Progressive discipline under the Board Code of Conduct. Infractions may result in confiscation and parent pick-up of the device. No fixed schedule of steps is published.
Asking for an exception
The statute names what a policy must accommodateStudents with accommodations outlined in the NJDOE guidance may use a device within the scope of that exception, with administrative approval beforehand. In an emergency, families contact the main office; students may use the main office to call a parent.
The statute itself names circumstances a policy must accommodate, including an IEP, a 504 plan, a documented health plan, translation needs, certain caregiving responsibilities, and emergencies.s.2.b(3)-(5)
In the district’s own words
Quoted exactly, not summarisedPersonal devices must not be visible or in use at any time during the school day, including lunch, study halls, and passing periods.
Bridgewater-Raritan High School · read · Open the document
Everything else on this page is our reading of Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District’s policy. This is the policy. We quote rather than paraphrase so you can check us against the document instead of taking our word for what it says.
The highlighted words are the district’s, not ours. They are the periods the statute never names, and this district wrote them into its own rule.s.2.b(2)
Sources
1 primary, 1 corroboratingNothing on this page can be published without at least one primary source attached to it. That is enforced by the database, not by a habit.
District decisionPrimary source
26-27 BRHS Internet-Enabled Devices: Parent Letter
Bridgewater-Raritan High School · September 1, 2026 · checked
Devices must not be with a student - not on their body - during the entire school day.
District decisionCorroborating source · reporting, not an official document
Internet-Enabled Devices: Parent Letter (district live feed)
Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District · September 1, 2026 · checked