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This is very, very dangerous, especially if an emergency happens and the teacher is out of the room or slow to respond. Yes, emergencies happened before cell p
by msla 3y ago
This is very, very dangerous, especially if an emergency happens and the teacher is out of the room or slow to respond.
Yes, emergencies happened before cell phones. People died of them more often back then.
- code_runner 3y agoSo interested in seeing some sources for “tragedies at schools causing death preventable by smartphone access during instruction”
- misnome 3y agoThis reads like pure hysteria. Do you have any evidence or statistics about rates of “Classroom Emergencies” to base this panic on? Specifically those outside of the US, we know that is an outlier.
- msla 3y agoCan you do this without bringing a completely unrelated country into it? The United States of America isn't the main character of history.
- bscphil 3y agoThat the US should not be the focal point of an argument about phones in schools is exactly the point that the parent comment was making.
- msla 3y agoI never brought up the US.
- michaelt 3y agoWhat misnome means is: Don't criticise this Dutch school rule if you can only do so using American school shooting statistics.
- msla 3y agoI never mentioned school shootings. Everyone else did.
- warrenmca 3y agoRemember this is the Netherlands, not the US. Happily, "emergencies" are not a regular occurrence.
- msla 3y agoYes, because Dutch people don't have medical emergencies.
- nerdbert 3y agoThey don't seem to have medical emergencies that can't be solved by one of the surviving kids running out of the mysteriously unattended classroom and fetching an adult to triage.
- msla 3y ago"Mysteriously unattended"? You've been out of school too long.
- dahwolf 3y agoWe do, but we don't send tweets about it or stand around to record it.
- arp242 3y agoThis is beyond hysterical. Children have managed to survive in classrooms for a long time without phones. They were not at great risk of dying in them before cell phones are not at great risk of dying in them today, even in the United States with all the school shootings and whatnot.
- _Algernon_ 3y agoI would bet that the number of in-classroom emergencies with fatal outcome that are prevented by kids having a phone is far outweighed by the number of social-media induced suicides and general loss of quality of life from mental health effects.
- gsich 3y agoWhat emergency in a classroom?
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoDumb phones are just as good as smart phones for emergencies.
- barbazoo 3y agoEven better I'd say https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-fixes-nightmare-android-bug-that-stopped-user-from-calling-911/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-fixes-nightma...
- msla 3y agoMedical emergencies. Family emergencies.
- Symbiote 3y agoMost classrooms probably have a landline phone on the teacher's desk. Any child can use that in an emergency. If not, all the adjacent classrooms almost certainly have a teacher present, who will also be trained in first aid.