Instead, it was that kiboshing phones is forcing kids to actually talk to each other in meatspace again — and it’s making schools way noisier, for better or worse. When educators were surveyed by the New York State United Teachers, for instance, the results were promising. “Now when we get computers, I actually have to [do] deep research instead of going straight to AI,” another NYC student told Gothamist. “I feel like the trust isn’t there between the students and teachers,” 14-year-old Enakshi Barua told Gothamist. “There are just a lot of memories that we make throughout high school that we want to capture,” Ko told Gothamist.