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This is the euphemistic way of saying “Parents need to be able to call their kids in the event of a school shooting”.

Aeolun 3y ago
There's much better ways to solve that problem than "being able to call your kids in the event of".
the_third_wave 3y ago
Given that I notice the same phenomenon in Sweden where school shootings are rarer than hen's teeth I do not think that this is true. Parents - or maybe I should say 'mothers' - want to be able to get hold of their offspring to tell them to come home in time/tell them to water the horses when they walk by the field/tell them they will collect them at the station/etc. The assumption that people are supposed to be reachable wherever they are really has permeated through society. I for one am glad that I was not assumed to be reachable when I cycled to and from school, paddled my inflatable boat over the river to the next village at 12yo, cycled through the Netherlands at 15yo and more. Not only did this add to the sense of freedom - being all by myself in that boat or cycling past places unknown to me without the risk of that stupid phone starting to blare at any moment - but it also helped in 'growing up' since I had to make decisions on my own without being able to call for help and advice at any moment. I was free, children nowadays are tethered - the opposite of what The Waterboys sing about in This is the Sea [1]: once you were tethered now you are free that was the river this is the sea This has turned into: now they are tethered, once they were free If you have children - I do - allow them the freedom you had yourself or the freedom you would have liked to have. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx--j1F5Ppg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx--j1F5Ppg
balderdash 3y ago
I actually don’t think it is, the school shooting thing is just a rationalization, cell phones are something that makes their lives easier that they don’t want to give up regardless of the harm it causes their child and children in aggregate. It’s like hearing a parent tell you that the reason they bought the luxury SUV de jour was because of safety.

There's much better ways to solve that problem than "being able to call your kids in the event of".

Given that I notice the same phenomenon in Sweden where school shootings are rarer than hen's teeth I do not think that this is true. Parents - or maybe I should say 'mothers' - want to be able to get hold of their offspring to tell them to come home in time/tell them to water the horses when they walk by the field/tell them they will collect them at the station/etc. The assumption that people are supposed to be reachable wherever they are really has permeated through society. I for one am glad that I was not assumed to be reachable when I cycled to and from school, paddled my inflatable boat over the river to the next village at 12yo, cycled through the Netherlands at 15yo and more. Not only did this add to the sense of freedom - being all by myself in that boat or cycling past places unknown to me without the risk of that stupid phone starting to blare at any moment - but it also helped in 'growing up' since I had to make decisions on my own without being able to call for help and advice at any moment. I was free, children nowadays are tethered - the opposite of what The Waterboys sing about in This is the Sea [1]: once you were tethered now you are free that was the river this is the sea This has turned into: now they are tethered, once they were free If you have children - I do - allow them the freedom you had yourself or the freedom you would have liked to have. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx--j1F5Ppg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx--j1F5Ppg

balderdash 3y ago

I actually don’t think it is, the school shooting thing is just a rationalization, cell phones are something that makes their lives easier that they don’t want to give up regardless of the harm it causes their child and children in aggregate. It’s like hearing a parent tell you that the reason they bought the luxury SUV de jour was because of safety.