{"id":171,"date":"2024-01-29T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=171"},"modified":"2024-06-10T20:16:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T20:16:43","slug":"ny-daily-news-nyc-high-school-middle-school-students-could-be-warned-of-social-media-dangers-in-new-council-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/01\/29\/ny-daily-news-nyc-high-school-middle-school-students-could-be-warned-of-social-media-dangers-in-new-council-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Daily News: NYC high school, middle school students could be warned of social media dangers in new Council bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/01\/29\/nyc-council-bill-aims-to-warn-middle-and-high-school-students-of-social-media-ills\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Michael Gartland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York City middle school and high school students could soon be required to receive warnings about the negative impacts of social media under new legislation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/district-7\/\">City Councilman Shaun Abreu<\/a>&nbsp;plans to introduce next month.<\/p>\n<p>Abreu\u2019s bill would compel the city\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/\">Department of Education<\/a>\u00a0to distribute facts at the beginning of each school year about social media addiction, its potential health impacts and the dangers posed by engaging with strangers online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Social media is like Frankenstein &#8211; a monster of our own making. We are stuck in an addiction spiral with alarming mental and physical health consequences,&#8221; he told the Daily News. &#8220;These apps are not only distracting our youth in the classroom, but isolating and dividing them from their peers. It&#8217;s time to act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abreu described his bill as &#8220;critical&#8221; to addressing &#8220;our youth mental health crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kids, families, and educators must be equipped to address and overcome the risks of social media addiction,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/01\/29\/nyc-council-bill-aims-to-warn-middle-and-high-school-students-of-social-media-ills\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Michael Gartland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York City middle school and high school students could soon be required to receive warnings about the negative impacts of social media under new legislation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/district-7\/\">City Councilman Shaun Abreu<\/a>&nbsp;plans to introduce next month.<\/p>\n<p>Abreu\u2019s bill would compel the city\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/\">Department of Education<\/a>\u00a0to distribute facts at the beginning of each school year about social media addiction, its potential health impacts and the dangers posed by engaging with strangers online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/01\/29\/ny-daily-news-nyc-high-school-middle-school-students-could-be-warned-of-social-media-dangers-in-new-council-bill\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}