Posted on 06/28/2024 10:07:03 AM PDT by davikkm
New York City Public Schools, the nation’s largest school district, is planning to prohibit cellphone use during the school day. This major policy shift comes in response to growing concern about youth mental health and the impact of smartphones on children. The ban will affect approximately 915,000 students. While students will still be allowed to bring their devices to school, they will be off-limits during school hours. This move represents a significant departure from current practice, where individual school principals set their own cellphone policies. Additionally, New York Governor Kathy Hochul plans to propose legislation that would prohibit smartphones in schools statewide.
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Better do smart watches, too.
Not gonna fly. After the deadly cowardice and incompetence of law enforcement during the massacre in the school in Uvalde Texas, no child shall be deprived of the means of calling their own parent to come rescue them as one mother did there after getting past cops trying to stop her.
First smart thing NYC has done.
Too much evidence being collected....?
Jam cell phone signals inside the buildings. A lot easier and a lot cheaper to enforce.
Just a reminder, the telecoms are all in for BLM and the rest of the Dem agenda.
The kids will be violent if they try.
You state that as if the telecoms are distinct entities. They're all part of the same globalist cabal.
The bootlicking fearful principals that currently run NY’s schools won’t enforce it, especially after the parents storm his office and threaten him.
It also inhibits vids of whackjob teachers, brawls etc...being posted on the internet.
Correct answer but the FCC would get their panties in a twist. Still, when I was in school, all through high school, that was the rule: no cellphones on school grounds. If you’re caught with one, it’s forfeit until the end of the year.
Granted I graduated in the early 2000s so back then cell phones were limited and honestly nothing but a distraction. Or a means with which to cheat.
Similar to the reminders in the sport’s threads-an obh form of escapism-despite them being members of the same cabal.
There is that, of course. Many interesting videos would not be posted in X.
I installed noise generators that stomped on top of the cell service and wireless router signal for about a 50 foot radius. I installed them inside the electrical controls cabinets. It worked great.
Nope. Cell phones are a human right now and you can’t take away some gang bangers human rights.
fwiw in our local district, the phones have to be put up during class time.
All of the rooms have racks for storage during class.
It’s my understanding that it has been effective.
Enforcing a restriction on public school pupils? In NYC?
A rare moment of lucidity. I hope it lasts.
Good move
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