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Wherever this is, sounds like the kids should just carry guns instead.
An assault rifle, a sidearm, at least two grenades and full body armour.
Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more
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i think the fcc might have something to say about that
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> more effective to just install a cell phone jammer in the schools
It would be very difficult to engineer this to not jam cell phones just beyond school property. (You’d also need federal approval. Banning is easier.)
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#44Having used a Palm Pilot to genuine benefit in highschool in the 90s, and having finally just gotten a smart watch in part specifically to reduce smartphone usage, I have mixed feelings about broad restrictions. Networked smart phones absolutely have major addictive and disruptive effects, and are hard to police in practice. But watches provide some pretty useful health and emergency benefits, while IME have lived up…
> But watches provide some pretty useful health and emergency benefits
For kids? How ever did anyone survive before 1990.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a source for this? Dog attacks being more common than car accidents seems extremely unlikely to me, given how prevalent car accidents are. I really wouldn't expect a cellphone ban for students to result in a significant rise of delayed treatment for injuries caused specifically by dog attacks. Even if dogs attacking students is such a common occurrence that it warrants consideration in this proposal (whic…
Other commenter posted some data. My point is that lighter attacks (scratches, jumping, sniffing, licking...) are so common, they can not even be reported. If students have no cameras, many more teachers would bring their "pets" into school.
> lighter attacks (scratches, jumping, sniffing, licking...)
Sniffing and licking are not “attacks”. If they are, a car honking or braking suddenly is a crash.
> If students have no cameras, many more teachers would bring their "pets" into school
How many teachers brought pets to school before the 2000s? How many people brought pets to the office? (If anything, there are more pets at the workplace now than ever before.)
The taking of a cell phone seems to have emotionally provoked you. Reflecting on why you’re responding to a phone like a crack pipe might be a better use of your time than pretending to have a phobia of dog licks.
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> more effective to just install a cell phone jammer in the schools It would be very difficult to engineer this to not jam cell phones just beyond school property. (You’d also need federal approval. Banning is easier.)
> It would be very difficult to engineer this to not jam cell phones just beyond school property
Most schools are set back a fair ways from the street, with lawns and playgrounds. I doubt it would be that difficult. Or one could use jammers with an effective range of 30 or 40 feet and have several of them to flesh out the coverage.
> You’d also need federal approval
Yup.
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#49Our middle school has banned phones during school hours, and it's been great. Even though most kids own phones and have them in their backpacks, they aren't seen. There are less problems during classes and kids have to talk to each other during lunch instead of going head down in their phones. Parental pushback has been really minimal - most parents love it, and it's good for the kids.
Making no phones a blanket policy in all schools should be an absolute no-brainer.
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#50My daughter's school gives all the kids ipads and she got a new one this year. The IT guy gave it to her before locking it down so she installed all the dumb apps she wanted on it before handing it back over. The point, aside from how proud I am of my daughter, is that kids are going to find a way to get what they want. This is an arms race. It'll be interesting to watch.