Being a teacher has never been easy, but it has never been quite as difficult as it is today. Smartphones, and technology as a whole, have monopolized everyone’s attention spans, especially that of teenagers. Over the past few years, public schools across the U.S. have taken a harsher stance against this issue by introducing new smartphone restrictions and outright bans. This school year, Linganore High School (LHS) will be adopting a similar set of rules.