District policy · 2026-2027
Passaic County Technical-Vocational Schools
Passaic County · County vocational district · Grades 9-12
Last verified · policy year 2026-2027 · policy 5516
Read this entry with one caveat
The handbook's bus section mentions devices only to say not to extend them out of a window, so it tells us nothing about whether phones may be used on the bus.
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 oneVaries by school
Different schools in the district use different storage methods.
"Keep the device secured in a backpack, locker, or other approved storage location throughout the school day."
What happens if the rule is broken
A cell phone violation is a Section 2 Code of Conduct offence: one day of after-school detention for a first offence, two days for a second, three days for a third, and in-school or out-of-school suspension beyond that. Earbuds and headphones are listed separately as a Section 3 offence.
Asking for an exception
The statute names what a policy must accommodateWe have not found this district’s exception procedure. Not yet verified
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 summarisedPCTVS maintains a bell-to-bell expectation regarding personal internet-enabled devices. Bell-to-bell refers to the period beginning when the school day starts and continuing until the dismissal bell, including passing periods, lunch periods, and all other times during the academic day.
Passaic County Technical-Vocational Schools · read · Open the document
Everything else on this page is our reading of Passaic County Technical-Vocational Schools’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, 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 Parent Handbook 2026-2027 (updated August 2026)
Passaic County Technical-Vocational Schools · Updated August 2026 · checked
Keep the device secured in a backpack, locker, or other approved storage location throughout the school day.