Why are you so angry?

Not angry at all. That’s too bad you read it that way. Loquacious, perhaps…nobody’s perfect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I ask because if the average school has kids in the high hundreds or low thousands, you’re not getting through during an emergency to the couple of office staff to ask if the information is real, etc. You’d have sit sit losing your mind waiting for the schools mass notification system to send you something.

No. No, you wouldn’t. You’d most likely be going on about your day, like most days, ringing up some customer or finishing some spreadsheet, blissfully ignorant about the exact details of your kid’s exact moments in school…until that notification from the school comes in. But you insist a call from your child in the midst of a crisis, hiding from your hypothetical sniper or in the middle of a tornado warning, would be more effective and less panic-inducing.

I find it interesting that instead of saying something about smartphones and aiding in-school research/studies, you immediately jump to “red alert emergency!”

It seems you’re suggesting <snip>

I’m suggesting that something with the status quo regarding kids’ education and smartphones is not working. I’m suggesting since the good people of Indiana apparently insist on giving their K-12 children smartphones yet can’t teach them responsible usage, that you think that it’s better your children “interact” via TikTok or Instagram or crush candy instead of during Algebra 101, Social Studies or during lunch period, the good state of Indiana and its educators should restrict children’s smartphone usage during school hours. It’s not unreasonable.

Better yet, teach your kids to leave the phones at home, Mom and Dad. But since you didn’t teach 'em that, well…here we are. Peace.

!detroit@midwest.social ☆ !michigan@midwest.social