Mayor Repeats Policy: No Cellphones in School

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg insisted yesterday that the city would not reconsider the ban on cellphones in the public schools despite a widening outcry from students, parents and public officials, reports The New York Times.

... "The teachers' union urged that students be allowed to carry phones in school, but not use them. And members of the City Council and Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum opposed the ban.

The mayor was dismissive of the teachers' union. "You wonder sometimes whether they're stopping to think," he said yesterday. "I think most teachers would argue that there should not be any of these devices."

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