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.
The hour hand is fucked up in some of those. With 5 lines in between numbers each one represents 12 minutes. But #4 clearly points to right around the 2nd line, rather than closer to the 3rd line. Numbers 10 through 12 are also wrong.
I get that it’s mostly for kids to be able to read the minute hand, but how hard could it be to not fuck up what they’d see in the real world?