The Man Who Named the Thieves

America is pulling the phones out of its schools. The diagram of the theft was published in German in 1973, and we never read it.

They are taking the phones away.

This month the Pennsylvania House voted to require every district in the state to restrict them. Illinois sent its own bill to the governor’s desk the same weekend. Indiana and Kansas went dark this year, bell to bell. Just a few years ago a parent who said this out loud at a school board meeting was booed. Now it is stat…