At the end of the last school year, Brownsville Area School District put a ban on all wearable technology , and despite some initial pushback from some students and parents, the district says it's changed everything when it comes to overall focus and teacher-student interaction.

Alec Hamilton, the director of security at the Brownsville Area School District, says when kids at the high school and middle school come in, they put their phone and other electronics like earbuds into a pouch that locks.

The policy went into effect for the last nine weeks of the 2024-25 school year, and district officials admit it took some getting used to.

"These children, this is an appendage, like, it's like an arm. They're losing their right arm to take this phone from them. That's all they have known,

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