Sort of agree?
Yeah, guns must be banned completely in the US, fully agree, but phones in class too. Waiting with one for the other won’t make anything better
Comment on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Kids spend far too much time in school on their phones. This is simply true.
Counter point to this tho: Kids go to school knowing a shooting can happen at any time and need to have their phones for if that happens.
I can’t support restricting phones before we restrict firearms.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How do students having phones help in a shooting?
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Is this a serious question? Replace “shooting” with any other emergency.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Calling/texting 911
Letting authorities know where they and/or the shooter is in the building
Even filming and documenting it is important after cunts like Alex Jones convinced an entire political party that all school shootings are fake, Jewish and Illuminati psyops to take away their guns.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
you’re joking right?
Calling police, calling parents, etc.
slaughterhouse@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What are the police gonna do? Wait outside until the shooter runs out of bullets, then go in to finish the job?
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Cops are worthless pieces of shit, 99% of the time. And Uvalde PD especially if that’s what you’re referencing.
Although, the release of the evidence that they did that, (which the GOP and UvaldePD fought tooth and nail to keep the footage secret), resulted in the following school shooting (the first transgender one the right obsesses over) had ended quickly after the pigs arrived.
Filming their incompetencies has an effect. Not much of one but an effect.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Police can be called by the teacher that’s also in the room. They never come in time anyways. Calling parents just reduces situational awareness by distracting the panicked kids.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Oh ok I didn’t realize you had survived multiple school shootings. Sorry you live in america.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
It’s nice to be able to call your parents when you’re bleeding out in the school atrium.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I’m assuming firearms are also restricted in NYC schools.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Yeah but the thing with mass shooters is that they don’t give a fuck what the law says.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
No, they don’t. But anyone who could smuggle in a phone could smuggle in a gun.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
When I was in school every room had a landline phone that could make calls both within the building and externally. Is this not the case now? What advantage does it give for everyone to have a phone? Wouldn’t that just create more variables, chaos and panic to deal with during an actual emergency?
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Maybe tell teachers to teach better ?? Especially math & science teachers.
oplkill@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Firstly pay them enough
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why don’t they just have rules like we did. Have your phone out in class and you get a lunch detention, next time a detention, 3rd time sent to the office with a recommendation for suspension.
Kids have to learn to be responsible… They will have their phone on them everywhere else in life, like work. Learning to be responsible about it seems like education.
cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
I fervently agree with your hypothesis, but i dont think you know what it is like inside public schools these days. “Shut up bitch” is the likely response to enforcing that lol
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Pick up the phone call the security guard to come escort them to the office for a 30 day suspension. Happens again expelled.
You can start day one with a message on the board that you have a zero tolerance policy for disrespect
The teachers are there to educate not parent. If the kids aren’t afraid of getting in trouble then it’s the guardians problem. Public education is something that is supposed to be available so kids can learn, and we have turned it into a place to dump your dependents so they can go to work apparently.