Posted on 09/05/2024 7:19:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
24 hours after a deadly school shooting in Georgia, local parents are speaking out, worried about strict cell phone policies.
Many Apalachee High School students said that they used phones to tell their parents about the shooting. This comes as school districts in Ohio and many other states, including Georgia, are adopting stricter policies on mobile devices.
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In the Cincinnati Public School District (CPS), seventh through twelfth grade students are required to lock their phones in a pouch during the school day. It's supposed to limit distractions in the classroom, but not all parents are on board, especially after the tragedy in Georgia.
"I feel that they need to be able to contact their parents as quickly as possible, especially if it's a school shooting or anything, just to let us know and keep us at ease," said CPS mom Sherry Moore.
CPS Superintendent Shauna Murphy wasn't available for an interview on the topic on Thursday, but Local 12 asked her about school safety at the very beginning of the school year.
"If it's a true emergency, an immediate emergency, our staff is available to unlock the Yondr pouches so students can access their phones," Murphy said.
How long that would take isn't clear. Retired cop Dan Hils now runs a private school security company; he believes that students are safer in school without phones.
"I think there's an operation that needs to be ran. Police and fire have to get to where they have to get to, and they have to be able to run reunification plans. All those things become more chaotic if every single kid has a phone," Hils said.
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"It makes me want to withdraw from the Cincinnati Public School system and homeschool because it's dangerous," Moore said.
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I am amazed that I survived childhood. We didn’t have cell phones.
GMTA. I know a bunch of idiots will argue about how wonderful it is for the kiddies to have phones everywhere they go. Like you I survived all my school years without a phone. It did make it easier for us to concentrate on school and get an education. Something that modern day students aren’t interested in.
Neither did we have so many psychotic instructors and peers.
We didn’t have school shootings, either.
My youngest son called me, hiding with his classmates, during an active shooter situation at Timberview High School on October 6, 2021.
We alternated between silent texts and whispering. I gave him instructions on what to do to survive. In the meantime, I was texting the rest of the family.
I stayed on the phone with him the entire time. Meanwhile, my husband and other children stopped everything they were doing and stayed glued to their phones.
Hearing you child say, “I don’t want to die like this...not like this,” will rip your heart out.
The teacher, his friends, and he all gathered around the phone while I walked them through what to do if the shooter came to their hallway or the room was breached (barracde the door then everyone rush him - people are going to get shot but overwhelming him increases the likelihood of mass survival instead of mass casualties). I had gone through an active shooter situation in July of 2019.
Most of all, I was able to keep him calm, focused, thinking about the mission of survival instead of succumbing to panic; churning the fear into anger so if the moment came, he could act instead of freeze.
Not a lesson anyone should have to teach a 15 year old kid with Aspergers, but you play the cards you are dealt.
You better believe that those Uvaldi parents hung on to every last word, last second, of time on the phone with their children, telling them they loved them, giving them hope, begging them to hang on.
If you have never been through it, you would not understand. If you had, you would have expressed a very different sentiment.
Yes all these kids have cell phones so where are the videos of the shooting?
“I am amazed that I survived childhood. We didn’t have cell phones.”
And my great-grandparents survived school without phones or electricity.
My grandparents survived it all without cars...
It’s a far different world now and we can hang a lot of blame on social media sure, but I want my kids to have a phone in such cases. The world is infinitely more dangerous today for kids than ever before.
The benefits of no cellphones are huge, whereas incidents like these are few, and, when they occur, kids should be focusing on their surroundings rather than on their phones.
Cell phone signal blockers should be mandatory in all government indoctrination centers. Land line phones should be made available in the head office for emergencies. That goes for teachers as well. Kids might ever learn how to read, spell, and do simple math if not distracted by phones all day.
I am amazed you will catch sh!t for this comment.
Some people think the world will stop without the cell phone.
Same ones who freaked out about toilet paper.
Do you know why they’re going after cellphones now?
It’s not for a good reason.
It’s so that kids can’t document what’s going on in their publik skrewls.
Q: Why are they banning phones?
A: Because if a feral student is playing a loud game on one, disrupting the class and you try to make them stop, they assault you
It’s not about the what.
It’s about the why.
In any case, cellphone abuse is a symptom, not a cause.
It’s because teachers don’t want to get caught indoctrinating/abusing kids.
Want to stop school shootings? Stop inculcating despair.
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