Teachers Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborne have competed with smartphones for students’ attention. Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborne/Compiled by NPR
Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborne/Compiled by NPR
Last October, Claire Pauley and her husband Mitchell Rutherford learned they were expecting their first child. However, Rutherford kept forgetting about his wife’s pregnancy. There was something else on his mind.
“I mean, when I went to school, I would forget that we were pregnant and I would come home and I wouldn’t remember until my wife would say something about it,” Rutherford said. “I’d come home