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The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

English teacher Donald Pults' classroom is shown minutes before the bell. As soon as students are given access to their phones, most if not all of them immediately check them for notifications or use them instead of talking to peers.

Complete phone ban proposed for next school year

Madi Ruchie, Layout Editor-in-Chief January 26, 2025

The school is on a time crunch. By March, all Minnesota schools need to have a phone policy set in place. The school board needs to vote fast since the plan in place right now, barely reduces phone usage...

New phone tries to make communications private

Ryan Burger March 1, 2014

​The first phone to put privacy and control ahead of everything else is the main idea behind the Blackphone​. Not yet released commercially, the Blackphone is an extremely secure smartphone that allows...

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