Local Initiatives

• The Mount Mansfield School Board is in the process of looking for a new Superintendent, who will be a new leader for our district schools starting in July 2025. This is a great opportunity to reach out to school board members (and encourage others to do so) to voice our community's desire to be a phone-free school district, and to emphasize this issue's priority when considering candidates for the Superintendent position.

• Sign the pledge to wait until at least 8th grade to get your kid a smartphone. There’s nothing to buy or do; you’re just making a commitment with other families in your child’s class. There are dozens of families in the MMUUSD district that have already signed the pledge, but there are only a few grades that have reached the tipping point to activate the pledge. Sign up - there is strength in numbers!

Statewide Initiatives

• Sign the Letter of Support for Phone- and Social Media-Free Schools from the Vermont Coalition for Phone and Social Media-Free Schools

• There is phone and social media-free school legislation going into the House and Senate with bipartisan sponsors for both bills. Here is the link to the national model legislation which Jonathon Haidt is publicly endorsing: Phone-Free Schools Model Legislation (Our Vermont legislation is basically the same thing).

• Here is Rep Angela Arsenault presenting the Phone Free Schools Bill to the House Education Committee