Each morning, students at Martin Luther King Middle School in Richmond, Virginia, begin their day with a lesson in restraint — by handing in their phones.
“I’m not worried about the notifications I’m getting and who’s texting me or what’s going on on social media,” 8th grader Jazmine Anderson said.
The school began piloting a program last year to lock up cellphones in special pouches made by the company Yondr and store them in a supervised backpack. When the school first started using the locked pouches, they’d let students hold onto them. But that didn’t quite work, 8th grade English teacher Jasmine Armistead said…