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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

Students socialize on campus. Following the administration's movement to ban phone use, they are seeking to promote social interactions among students.

Phone use to be fully restricted at Upper School starting 2025-2026 school year, administration says

Kara Jazaeri, Assistant News Editor
October 3, 2024

Phone use at the Upper School will be fully restricted starting next fall, according to an email sent the administration Oct 1. Cell phone use will no longer be permitted throughout the school day in an...

In an act to limit phone usage and distractions in class, the administration is now reinstating the use of phone caddies for the entirety of the 75-minute block.

Administration reaffirms phone policy during classes

Luca Gonzalez, Assistant News Editor
September 10, 2024

The upper school administration recently reaffirmed their commitment to enforcing a phone policy, which was introduced in the spring of last school year. The policy states phone caddies will be enforced...

Anna Gong/Chronicle

Phoneless Life

Brittany Hong
March 7, 2017

It was on a Tuesday winter afternoon. I was meeting with my teacher right before the buses left and that was when my day began to morph into a disaster. 3:12 p.m. — I walked out of the office. 3:13...

Photo illustration by Leily Arzy and Aimee Misaki

One Call at a Time

Layla Moghavem
March 18, 2015

“Hi, this is Teen Line, my name’s Lily,” Alexa Nourafchan ’17 answered the phone, giving a fake name, as is Teen Line policy. She arrived at the offices in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for her weekly...

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