ROCHESTER, N.Y. — We are three months into the cell phone ban in schools and according to survey results released by the governor’s office this week, it’s working. News10NBC Chief Investigative Reporter Berkeley Brean is inside the schools to see the impact firsthand.
Brean visited the Webster Learning Center at Rush Henrietta where students showed off the winter hats and scarves they knitted and donated as part of the “Wall of Giving.” The students, including Claire Weston, Eve Craft and Hailie Mayhew, did the work at lunch, a time they say would have been spent on their phones last year.
Brean: “Now last year at lunch you probably would have been on your phones?”Hailie Mayhew, junior: “Yeah.”Brean: “What is the experience this year of not having phones in school?”Hailie Mayhew, junior: “I mean it is an adjustment because last year when we did have our phones we didn’t really communicate with other people.”…