New York students just underwent their first week of school with a bell-to-bell cellphone ban aimed at improving learning outcomes and fostering face-to-face social connection.
Parents, students, and staff largely had positive reactions to the new policy in comments to CBS News.
“At first, I was really torn up about it. And then, now, I kind of like, like at lunch, we’ll all talk the whole period,” said Jack Kuenstler, a 12-grader at Walt Whitman High School in South Huntington…