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 and just collapse on the floor. I was suicidal at times.”
He was a high school biology teacher in Tucson, Ariz. and his students’ near-constant smartphone use was taking a toll on his well-being. So when summer rolled around after his eleventh year in the classroom—he quit.
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