District policy · 2026-2027
Uncommon Schools Camden Prep
Camden County · Renaissance school project · Grades K-12
Last verified · policy year 2026-2027
Read this entry with one caveat
This is a renaissance school project, which the statute covers alongside districts and charters. The handbook's rule is written as “while in the school building” rather than as a time span, under a heading that reads “School-Day Ban Policy”. We therefore cannot tell from it whether the rule is meant to reach beyond the school day, and buses and before/after school stay unverified.
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 oneWe have not found a source that states how this district stores devices during the day.
The network sets the standard and delegates the mechanism: "Individual schools will determine and communicate their own daily procedures for device collection." Devices must be turned off and out of sight while in the school building.
What happens if the rule is broken
The device is confiscated until the school leader returns it or decides a family member must collect it, and the principal contacts the parent. Notably bounded: “a student may not be suspended on the sole grounds that they accessed a personal electronic device in violation of this policy.”
Asking for an exception
The statute names what a policy must accommodateSeven grounds, each routed to a named reviewer: documented healthcare management (Office of School Health or the nurse), caregiving for a family member case by case (psychologist, social worker or counsellor), an IEP or 504 plan, explicit school authorisation for a specific educational purpose, translation or interpretation where no other means is available, an individual emergency with prior parent notification to the principal, and where required by law.
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 summarisedAll cell phones and other personal electronic devices (whether internet-enabled or not) — including smart watches, earbuds, and smart glasses (e.g., Ray-Ban Meta glasses) must be turned off and out of sight while in the school building. This includes any audio or video recording devices.
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Everything else on this page is our reading of Uncommon Schools Camden Prep’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.
Sources
1 primary, 0 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
Student and Family Handbook 2026-2027
Uncommon Schools Camden Prep · checked
Individual schools will determine and communicate their own daily procedures for device collection.