New York to ban smartphones in schools

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@beschizza

“Parents are very anxious about mass shootings in school,” she said. “Parents want the ability to have some form of connection in an emergency situation.”

I understand that people crave the illusion of control over their out-of-control environments; but I’m always puzzled by the genre of people insisting on the vital importance of communication under circumstances where there’s nothing they would be nothing they would be able to do with the information.