Middle school principal Dr. Kristy Zaleta says the ban has decreased bad behavior and increased engagement in classrooms.

Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for Commentary and a frequent contributor to the magazine’s podcast, and a fellow at Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Rosen is also the author of "The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World," a book that has changed my life.

Every book changes every reader’s life for, at a minimum, reading any book consumes time you cannot get back. But some books have far-reaching impacts. I chanced, for example, upon "One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich" among my oldest brother’s books when, long ago, he came home for the summer after his freshman year in college. That short, riveting novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn had quite an impact on me. Until reading it, I had no idea of the Gulag or the vast suffering of those imprisoned in it or the menace of totalitarian ambitions. (I hadn’t begun high school yet so no criticism of my teachers in the 1960s, though it would be a fine book for every youngster in junior high to read.)

Of the thousands of books I’ve been lucky enough to read, very few suggest explicitly that I change my own behavior much less successfully do so. But Rosen’s subtly does just that, and she succeeded even before I had finished it.

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