Tyler McBride walked about his middle school classroom in rural Arkansas years ago during a period of silent reading as students sat in quiet, fixated on the texts before them.
But hunched behind one book propped upright on a desk was a student fixated on something else – a smartphone positioned so that it was hidden. It wasn’t hidden quite well enough.
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A student is shown here using his cellphone in school.
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A Danville Area High School student checks her cellphone during a lunch period in 2017.
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Cellphones sit in a holder at Shamokin Area High School.
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