After a full-time return to campus in 2022, teachers in the district found many students were “interacting intensely with cellphones in a way we didn’t see before the pandemic,” said superintendent Diego Ochoa, and so the school district adopted a smartphone ban for four middle schools in 2022.
It's amazing to me how much the pandemic has impacted students and how they interact more with the phone through text, beyond just being more social, and how that stuck even after returning to school. The interaction from person to person was not the same; there was more usage of cellphones to communicate with one another