Parents are pushing back against New York City’s controversial cellphone ban in schools, with many families saying they are “not going to work.”
The bell-to-bell cellphone ban greeted returning students, who number roughly 1 million, for the first time as they came back to school on Tuesday. Many parents and children shared mixed feelings about the new rule.
NYC’s Controversial Phone Ban
Many students have already shared various ways that some of them have taken to work around the ban, posting and sharing hacks on TikTok by the end of the school day. Some institutions are also struggling to manage the logistical nightmare of taking the students’ phones or storing them in pouches.
One 11-year-old student at JHS 217 in Queens said that they told her the school did not have a pouch or a magnet for her phone. She revealed that the school said they would be getting the items on Monday, according to the New York Post…