INDIANAPOLIS — Since Indiana’s school cellphone ban went into effect in 2024, classroom distractions haven’t disappeared. But they have become a little more old school.
Students now pass notes and notebooks, doodle, write poetry, and talk to their neighbors, teachers say. But all of these diversions are less diverting than a phone.
As things stand now, the cell phone ban applies only to instructional time, and teachers are allowed to let students use their phones in class for learning…