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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    4 days ago

    Youth of today are a failure. They neither show the initiative to adopt new and improved practices the way we broke from those of our parents’ generation, nor the wisdom to recognize that our generation’s ways are the correct ones and should be followed to the letter.

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      Youth of today are some of the most forward thinking empathetic no nonsense people around.

      I love the younger generations, their compassion and humanity is leagues ahead of their predecessors.

      Anyone who shits on them is a failure.

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        Yeah, I share your view. I wish that the youth of today could have grown up in a better world than I did, but unfortunately for most, that’s not the case. Sure, there are some things that are better, but by and large, young people are facing so much hard stuff. In spite of that (and perhaps even because of that), I have seen so many of them who are deeply caring and engaged in politics.