And if you’re a student in the U.S.? “Lock up your cellphones because we don’t care about your ability to phone emergency services in the highly likely event of a school shooting because gun laws mean more to us then the lives of our youth.”

April 09, 2026 - 21:42 UTC

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There will always be somebody to call 911. And having a phone beep while hiding from a shooter could be a big problem. Mostly, kids were very distracted in school. The schools that have restricted phones have seen everything from attention to behavioral improvements.
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As mentioned before, it was students, not staff, in Uvalde who were among the first to make emergency calls during their shooting. I’m a Millennial & have had a cellphone since I was 6. My peers & I didn’t experience any distraction from having them on us in school & I graduated with honors to boot.
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Does anyone under 60 still have notification sounds turned on?

None of the kids I work with (work experience sessions, so 14 to 18yo) have sound on.
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School shootings are awful but they are not highly likely events
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School shootings in the U.S. have been steadily increasing, not decreasing. They are indeed highly likely events and have taken place in nearly every single state, with California alone experiencing over 220 of them since 1966. They are likely, and becoming even more likely, every single year.
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I'm fine with kids having a "dumbphone" to call their parents with in case of an emergency. But I don't think smartphones have been great for developing brains.

That's entirely orthogonal to AI, which should be banned
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That’s basically what I had from ages 6 to 18- a “dumb phone”. Good ‘ol Nokia brick & a few others. No social media, texting wasn’t even a practical thing until I was in high school really, but did allow for calls to guardians and emergency calls which I definitely used to report domestic violence.
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Yup. And turns out it’s not even the best defense against tyranny, so it was for nothing.
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