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.
I’m not an advocate of smartphone bans, but necessity is the mother of invention, and I suppose that if some kids start cobbling together packet radio solutions to talk with their friends and reach the Internet, it’ll probably be an educational experience.
I’d be hilarious if they started using and contributing to the meshtastic network.
Please. Turn every school into a node in the network
Yeah, especially with schools being somewhat evenly distributed around cities - this could really help with coverage. I’ve only read about Meshtastic but I recall it’s extremely low bandwidth so that would be a problem for the little dissidents.
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
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