LYMAN — Teachers and administrators at Lyman Elementary School are seeing a lot fewer classroom distractions and disputes now that the school has imposed a ban on Pokemon.

Pupils had been focusing their attention on the wildly popular trading cards based on the Japanese cartoon phenomenon, ignoring what was happening in class.

“I don’t want to share my classroom with a Japanese monster,” said Pamela Potter, a fourth-grade teacher who was frustrated for weeks by the distractions.

“It wasn’t keep these things out of here because they’re immoral and bad,” Gale said.