At least 31 states and the District of Columbia restrict cell phones in schools
New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no longer know how to tell time on an old-fashioned clock.
“That’s a major skill that they’re not used to at all,” Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, told Gothamist of what she’s noticed after the ban, which went into effect in September.
Students in the city’s school system are meant to learn basic time-telling skills in the first and second grade, according to officials, though it appears children have fallen out of practice doing so in an increasingly digital world.
Analog clocks are not “common” out in the world. Not where these kids are.
people with an interest in watches are a small percentage of people with watches. And most are “boomers” who don’t actually have an interest in watches beyond as a status symbol.
AFAIK there is a wall clock in every classroom, for a start.
Not sure where else kids go these days. But I work part time as a ski chaperone and there’s a huge clock at the ski resort you can see from the ski hill, and other clocks at the pool where the swim team is, and at the gym, and by the library at the town center.