As the bell rings to start a new period at Green Hope High in Cary, students settle into Harrison Miller’s earth science class. Hanging on the wall by the door is a set of small numbered pouches, most of them already holding a student’s phone.
“Anyone who still hasn’t put their cell phone up, please at this time, get it done,” Miller reminds his students, and a few stragglers bring up their phones and place them in a pouch.
Principal Alison Cleveland says this is how every class has started here for more than a year, and the school is seeing the benefits…