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.
No need to take them down, eventually they will need to be replaced and most people have a phone or a digital watch anyway. It’s just not super priority. I think reading comprehension should be a higher concern
Agreed, it’s a gradual process. I would be inclined to agree, but there still is a sizable watch heads population, even among younger folks, so who knows.
Definitely, literacy is key. What decades of defunding the humanities and liberal arts does…