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Oh no! How would the kids survive such a draconian policy!?
by waynecochran 2y ago
Oh no! How would the kids survive such a draconian policy!?
- 39896880 2y agoIt’s not the kids it’s the parents. They expect to be in constant contact with their kids. Note to the office won’t do.
- sverhagen 2y agoWell... it's some parents... and then from there it's peer pressure on the other kids, who then go beg their parents for one too.
- Teever 2y agoEdit: replied to wrong person.
- School-Cotton 2y agoLooks like you responded to the wrong person
- trealira 2y agoDid you mean to reply to this comment? "As a parent, yep, in event of a school shooting. It's an insurance policy to hear your child's last words. Address the root cause, because everything else is just a band-aid." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40718741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40718741
- leetharris 2y agoI think they will get used to it quickly. This is how it used to be and parents had far less anxiety. I think at first it will be a very jarring change, but once they are through the worst part society will adopt quickly.
- kelseyfrog 2y agoAs a parent, yep, in event of a school shooting. It's an insurance policy to hear your child's last words. Address the root cause, because everything else is just a band-aid.
- RebeccaTheDev 2y agoSame. This is the reason my daughter has one. Things are getting extremely hot out there and no one seems willing to do anything about it.
- amelius 2y agoMaybe buy them a Nokia 1100 instead?
- RebeccaTheDev 2y agoI give her my old iPhone that's already paid off when I upgrade (and that I can put parental controls on.)
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoWhat do you mean by things getting "hot" out there? Are you monitoring any signals or predictors of school shootings at your daughter's school? Sorry, genuinely trying to understand your perspective here.
- jvanderbot 2y agoOh great, this made me switch sides on this whole argument. Horrifying black swan events are very motivating.
- blackhawkC17 2y agoIn the cause of a school shooting (that’s statistically almost not bound to happen), phoning your child is a liability likely to get more people killed than an asset.
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- tivert 2y ago> It’s not the kids it’s the parents. The cause isn't some mutually exclusive binary like that. It can be both at the same time and the proportion can vary between families.
- foolfoolz 2y agoi feel like parenting keeps regressing. at my kids school many parents walk their kids in. i get that for kindergarten, but 3rd grade? you live 3 blocks away. your kid could walk. and biking is out of the question, too dangerous. only 2 kids bike to school. and they wouldn’t let their kid walk home (probably a quarter mile) without a gps device. air tag is not enough because it’s not realtime and has no communication. this isn’t an exaggeration. so many of my parent friends think this way. “they can’t bike to school because what if they fall and need help? they need a phone” why as humans do we create more barriers and goalposts?
- AlgorithmicTime 2y ago[dead]
- Workaccount2 2y agoHumans evolved to constantly identify threats and ward them off. A side-effect of this is that as real threats dwindle and disappear, brains will naturally fill the gap with progressively more paranoid and unfounded fears.
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- nytesky 2y agoIt’s because drivers are all on their phones and unless your 3rd grader is 5 ft tall, they will be easily unseen and plowed over.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoYou don't actually know that, and it depends drastically on the car and pedestrian infrastructure around the school, as well as the child himself.
- sircastor 2y agoIt’s anecdotal, sure, but I don’t think you’re appreciating how bad this problem is.
- totaldude87 2y agoA smart watch can easily solve the contact problems
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- EasyMark 2y agoIt’s both. Some kids need it, some parents need it, sometimes there’s a codependency. It’s not always 0 or 1.