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A comment on Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more. Parent comment

Re:Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, ... by shiroiushi on Monday August 19, 2024 @02:53AM (#41288471)
>Between teachers phones, intercoms, cameras, and hardline phones there should be plenty of communication equipment available for a crisis.

How does that stuff help when the kid isn't actually at school, but is between home and school somewhere? If the kid can't bring the phone to school at all, then that means the kid can't have the phone on the way to school either. Allowing the kids to bring phones but lock them up during school hours would solve this problem though.

Also, this is US-specific, but what if there's a school shooting? You don't want someone's kid to be able to call their parents and say some last words to them before they're brutally shot, while the entire town's police force is simply standing outside and preventing anyone from entering?

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Re:Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, ... by DiggyJohnson on Monday August 19, 2024 @02:57AM (#41288487)
At my school phones were instructed to be off and in lockers during school hours.
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Re:Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, ... by lotsoweiners on Monday August 19, 2024 @04:20PM (#41294279)
This is the policy at my kid’s school. In fact if a student is caught with a phone then the phone is confiscated and only the parent can pick it up from the office.
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