""We want to make sure you can keep learning," Hochul said. "Kids from all of the state will see this change but you are among the very first to have this. Your teachers will have a better experience teaching you and getting to know you better.""
""I'm 50-50, because I understand. But a lot happens in schools these days, and it's nice to know that there's communication throughout the day... But I understand it's to have the kids pay attention, so I see both sides.""
""I personally don't really mind. I didn't have a cell phone in fifth grade myself, actually. And there are still a lot of kids in the school who don't have a phone yet. I feel like people forget there was a time when nobody had cell phones. So I think""
Students returned to Brooklyn public schools for the first day of classes amid excitement, nerves and new beginnings. Governor Kathy Hochul visited M.S. 582 in Bushwick at 8:45 a.m. to promote a statewide 'bell-to-bell' cell phone ban intended to reduce distractions and improve teacher-student engagement. Reactions among families were mixed, with some parents seeing communication drawbacks and others recalling childhoods without phones. At P.S. 321 in Park Slope, a fifth-grade student expressed excitement about advancing to sixth grade, while her mother described bittersweet feelings and ambivalence about the phone restriction.
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