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This school banned cellphones six years ago. Teachers — and many kids — couldn’t be happier.

This school banned cellphones six years ago. Teachers — and many kids — couldn’t be happier.

Students at California’s San Mateo High School, about 20 minutes south of San Francisco, have been prohibited since 2019 from using their cellphones while in school — from bell to bell. Schools nationwide, including some in Maryland, are now increasingly imposing such bans, but San Mateo was one of the earliest and largest schools in the country to implement a complete ban on cellphones during school hours.

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