May 15 marks one year since Governor Kathy Hochul enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on personal phones in public schools, impacting almost a million children in K-12 public and charter schools across the state.
Teachers who spoke to The Post all say the ban has had an overwhelmingly postive impact on their schools.
“I think that the cell phone ban has been remarkable,” Dr. Jessica Chock-Goldman, director of clinical services at Bard High School Early College of Manhattan on the Lower East Side, told The Post. “I’ve been astounded by how much of a shift it has been.”
“Kids actually talk to each other in school. They sit in the hallway, they engage, they laugh, they study. They play games,” she said…