At least 31 states and the District of Columbia restrict cell phones in schools

New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no longer know how to tell time on an old-fashioned clock.

“That’s a major skill that they’re not used to at all,” Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, told Gothamist of what she’s noticed after the ban, which went into effect in September.

Students in the city’s school system are meant to learn basic time-telling skills in the first and second grade, according to officials, though it appears children have fallen out of practice doing so in an increasingly digital world.

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    7 days ago

    Of course we could just have schools that don’t blow so hard you want to tune it out and am electronics club but since we apparently hate kids they gotta invent their way around censorship

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      6 days ago

      Yeah I bet they’re going to figure out mandatory education that’s more interesting and fun than chatting with your friends and playing games. Lol