New York City officials say cellphone use in school has become a distraction and outright addiction. Last week, Los Angeles voted to ban cellphones and social media use by students during school hours. Now, the largest district in the nation plans to follow suit by rolling out a plan to stop phone use in school. NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks tells Good Day that he and NYC Mayor Eric Adams will announce the official plan in the next few weeks. "They're not just a distraction.
In a New York Post op-ed, Bloomberg says New York City should bring back his ban on mobile-phone use by students during school days."The ban was one of many policy changes that allowed us to transform the school system in ways that dramatically raised student-achievement levels," Bloomberg writes. He says his administration did it "despite the storm of protests it generated," and that Mayor Adams should do the same.