NY: Governor Hochul Unveils “$13.5 Million Plan” To Ban Smartphones in Schools

By FrumNews

Albany, NY – As the New York Department Of Education fights Yiddishe Chinuch across the state, the democratic governor—who is directly allowing our yeshivas to be a punching bag from the New York State Department Of Education as they attempt to force woke ideology into our Mosdos, is mulling to take a standard from the Yeshivas and Jewish schools.

The state is banning smartphones in schools “at the cost of $13.5 Million,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced this week—a blanket ban on smartphones in public schools across the state, starting next school year.

As FrumNews readers know, most Yeshivas and Frum high schools already ban smartphones for their students, which improves the atmosphere for learning and the Ruchnius of the yeshivas.

In stark contrast, most of New York’s failing public schools allow smartphones for it’s students, creating a distraction and a bad learning environment for them.

Yet, many New York State elected officials in Albany keep fighting against our Yeshivas, actively making it more difficult for New York’s successful Yeshivas and Chedarim to stay open. Ironically, they even try copying our system time and time again—as seen here.

“Why are young people on their devices all day long during school hours? How are they learning? How are they multitasking in a way that they’re checking out what everybody’s going to be doing this weekend and scrolling and seeing different feeds and listening to their geometry class?” Gov. Hochul told MSNBC, “That was hard enough class for me paying attention, so this is what’s going on now. But individual schools are making decisions.”

Hochul went on to say “I’m okay if you have a flip phone,” which readers know are allowed in most Yeshivos, (termed as “Kosher Phones”).

A Brooklyn Melamed told FrumNews, “If Hochul can’t keep weapons and crime out of her public schools, what makes anyone think she could stop smartphones from entering the classroom?”