!00% agree.
Now let's work on getting those dam things out of 5000-pound vehicles going
down the road @ 70mph.

It’s not the phones they worry about, it’s the many cameras and microphones.

How did they do it for the decades before the cell phone? Why are we raising such fearful children? How many will ever be kidnapped in their life time? But how many will worry about it?

Perhaps there will be an unintended benefit, they will be getting rid of the cause of many school shootings, social media access. Think about it, guns have been around forever, but the frequency of school shootings is a relatively new thing that coincides with the youth getting hooked on social media? Call it a coincidence, I think not.

It is usually the alienated teens and early twenty somethings who go on shooting sprees and not the well adjusted teens who are big on sharing stuff among their peers at school . Military weapons have not been accessible to teens all that long .

How did a thread on banned cell phones in schools devolve into a discussion of school shootings?

This is an overreaction. Students don’t need their phones in class, but any good teacher controls the phones in their room. When my kids were in school, many teaches had a shoe holder with pockets on the wall. Students were assigned a slot number. They put their phone in the slot on the way in and take it out on the way out.

Not Necessarily
 

There are obstacles that remove the power from a teacher to control the issue. For instance they couldn’t just grab your phone and put it on their desk and wait for a parent to pick it up. They would be fired. Also, there is likely more than one phone in a classroom, just how many eyes is a teacher supposed to have? 30 kids likely means 30 phones. They should be focusing on teaching, not putting out fires of annoyance. There is no reason a kid needs a phone in class. The phones are not helpful for a students focus of being educated.

When I went to school, calculators were expensive, and they were banned.

Although it was fun doing thousands of math problems by hand, just a few hours with a calculator would suffice.

Same with a phone and a computer. Get with the program, they're tools that give us an edge.

And as an added bonus the kids can make videos and take pictures to keep the teachers honest and on task rather than whatever they're doing these days with all that political crap.

I think that it is a good idea. I just HOPE that they can enforce it. There are a lot of people trying DESPERATELY to "dumb- down" America.

The NEWEST smart phones are coming out with a BEAR SPRAY capability.

Letting your mom know that you're alive and uninjured is kinda, I dunno, a good idea. Or that the killer is dead, and you think your foot is broken. Or that the teacher is dead and her cell phone is under her dead body otherwise maybe she would've called the police instead of waiting for you to call your mom. Your mileage may vary.

The likelihood of a school shooting is 100% for all schools where there have been a school shooting.

The likelihood has increased significantly since Columbine. In 2024 alone, there were 39 school shootings across the country. That's almost one in every contiguous state. So the odds of it happening in your state, in 2024, was over 80:1

Good for him. The good points of stopping cell phone use outweigh the bad points.

When I went to school, calculators were just starting to show up. I had a couple of friends with $400 HP35s. You could use them in exams but they weren't going to help when the questions were all of the form "show this" and "prove that". I suspect things haven't changed much in 50 years.