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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with all the reasons why phones in school are bad, but for me it’s a matter of safety. School shootings don’t cross my mind, but of course, what a horror. Uvalde is case in point. My kid takes metro 40 mins away for school, and ranges around after school. It’s important that she’s reachable and I can track her. [/quote]

Uvalde is sadly a case study in how useless phones were for the kids that had them even in an emergency, and they did absolutely nothing to improve their safety.

That's entirely separate from saying you want your kid to have a phone on the way to/from school, and nobody is arguing against that.

There's simply no reason your child needs to be "reachable" directly via cellphone during instructional hours. They can put them away for the day via whatever method the schools want to implement, and your child will be no more/less safe (well, more safe from a learning and mental health perspective perhaps), and it won't impact your ability to track your child in transit or while ranging around after school.[/quote]

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