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.
This thread hurts my soul… it’s not the actual subject but the quickness with which apparently everyone under 40 shrugs and says ‘fuck it’… if this is too much, I can only imagine how people treat subjects like informed voting.
Now you know how a clay tablet scribe felt when that new-fangled papyrus showed up in the high-schools.
You’re a funny bugger :)
I was going to reply to your hourglass and sundial joke with a reflection that hourglasses are so much older than the relatively recent development of sundials, but you clearly knew that so I didn’t. And then the one-two. You could have done cuneiform vs hieroglyphs but tablets vs papyrus is the better gag. Keep it up :)
Recent evidence shows they were used side by side for a while.
Interesting! Thanks.
No need to imagine, look at the people elected to run the United States.
That’s how people treat subjects like informed voting.
And look at the competition. You get what you ran against
Ick. Voting? Do I have to go wake up the dude that takes the cover off of my dad’s Rivian?
Also. Where’s my free house!?