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You’ve probably heard by now that Belmont High School has banned the use of phones during class. Believe me, it’s all anyone is talking about at school. BHS administrators are probably already studying the effectiveness of the ban — that is, its…

He was a lively and informative young man—well-mannered, too, stamping his work boots on the bottom step to loosen dirt and mud. A company logo was embroidered on his shirt pocket and across the front of his baseball cap, but I didn’t…

When Belmont High School students Shea Brams and Francesca Kitch were in the Climate Action Club back in 2020, they had the germ of an idea: a garden of native plants on the grounds of the newly built school. They didn’t imagine…

One of the sorrows of age is growing old enough to have lost touch with others. One of the pleasures is being young enough to find them again. During the pandemic, when we all individualized our forms of escape, I began writing…