Separate comment, because I don't want to hijack the archive comment:
>with many critics insisting their children need phones in case of an emergency.
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>But educators and experts say students need to focus on their surroundings during a crisis, not their cellphones.
It's pleasing to see the rhetoric shift on this one. Hopefully, in a few years, we'll all regard it as a funny mistake that phones were ever allowed in schools.
Out here, in some schools they don't even allow phones on multi-day school field trips. The class teacher has a single, dumb, "class phone", all the parents know the number, all the kids can use it at apropriate times to call their parents, so all the "emergency" needs are covered, but the kids are not glued to a phone half the time there.
>with many critics insisting their children need phones in case of an emergency.
>[...]
>But educators and experts say students need to focus on their surroundings during a crisis, not their cellphones.
It's pleasing to see the rhetoric shift on this one. Hopefully, in a few years, we'll all regard it as a funny mistake that phones were ever allowed in schools.