NYC teachers stunned to learn students can’t read old clocks amid phone ban
www.independent.co.uk
At least 31 states and the District of Columbia restrict cell phones in schools

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41056130

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.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    5 months ago

    Says the guy who apparently can only sting together an insult.

    Stuff changes. Each generation does things differently. Stone Age people probably said the same thing when they stopped teaching their children to flintknap after everyone started using bronze tools.

    We abandon old technology when it becomes obsolete, and eventually the skills associated with them. And that’s normal.

    We don’t have enough hours in a lifetime to learn all the stuff we’ve abandoned, and analog clock faces are going that way. It’s okay. This is normal.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Sometimes people like you just need to know they’re stupid. I’m no longer in the habit of arguing with people who demonstrate such a stunning lack of brain power.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        and sometimes, people like you need to know they’re assholes. (and stupid.)

        Things change. the only people “surprised” by this are either the ones not paying attention or the ones who don’t like change.

        Your insistence that I am stupid and your vapid dismissal is not intelligence. Ad hominem attacks are not to be confused for valid arguments. it’s fine if you don’t want to engage, but you are engaging. But only engaging with insults. Which means you’re superiority is based solely on arrogance.

        Kinda, in point of fact, like the teacher my nephew has this year, who insists this kind of shit shows they’re all too stupid for society. You. That teacher. These teacherfs? they’re hurting children with their bullshit, and it is bullshit.

        Oh no. Kids don’t know how to do things that were once common but not any more. So. fucking. what. pull your head out of your ass. that breeze you’re smelling ain’t fresh air.