FALL RIVER — Students in city public schools are heading back to phone-free classrooms, but not everyone is hitting the Like button. 

Earlier this summer, Superintendent Tracy Curley announced that public schools would ban cellphones in class for grades 6 to 12, with most schools using Yondr locking pouches to enforce the ban — the same pouches Atlantis Charter School has already used the past year to enforce its policy.  

“We ask the Fall River school board to reconsider the policy, for the safety of our children and to foster responsible use of technology," reads a notice on a Change.org petition begun earlier this month. 

As of Tuesday evening, the petition to rethink the policy has just over 1,500 signatures.

Read more from Dan Medeiros at heraldnews.com.