EDITORIAL: Presence in an always-connected age
There's a quality to teenage life that seems unchanging across generations — that feeling of being suspended between childhood and adulthood, where every moment feels both fleeting and endless. Today's high school students in Coeur d'Alene are experiencing this transition but with an added layer of complexity that our generation never knew: the constant presence of cellphones.
Reading about the student petition against the new cellphone restrictions, we thought about the texture of high school days before phones became extensions of ourselves. The quiet anticipation of waiting by a locker, hoping to catch a glimpse of someone. Folding little notes into tight triangle. The way a crowded hallway could be full of possibilities.
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