Clear Backpacks + Pay to Keep Your Phone

[u/TheAeroplaneBear2906]

My freinds school is now requiring these items, and is also using AI to promote this 🫠

[u/a_rabid_anti_dentite]

Yeah as a teacher who works in a school with Yondr pouches, the biggest impact it has is creating a second layer of expectations: not only should I not see your phone, it should be in your pouch. If it's not, all a teacher does is email admin and they come take it from the student, no questions asked. It helps.

[u/eggz627 → u/a_rabid_anti_dentite]

So i gotta ask how that policy functions during a potential firearm at the school situation?

Edit: I've been out of high school since 08. Phones weren't prominent nor a major problem that they've evolved into. I know nothing about these pouches and asked a genuine question. Do with that what you will.

[u/ChillyTodayHotTamale → u/eggz627]

This is a terrible justification for having phones. Not only is it statistically low but there is nothing a child with a phone can do to help the situation other than notify authorities which you would assume a teacher or admin has already done. People always jump straight to school shooing snd I'm just done hearing it. It's not valid excuse.

[u/Yummygnomes → u/ChillyTodayHotTamale]

I've heard of students leaving during reunification because they were able to text their parents to come pick them up, and they were able to sneak away from school officials who were trying to keep track of 2000 students and get them back with their families. They ended up searching the building room by room looking for the student that snuck away and had to devote considerable resources searching that were already stretched thin.

[u/InfanticideAquifer → u/Yummygnomes]

I dunno how compelling people are going to find this argument. "The pouches are good because they can prevent you from removing your kid from a violent disaster" is the kind of thing that only sounds good to a bureaucrat.

[u/Yummygnomes → u/InfanticideAquifer]

Yeah, true, people who don't think about this situation regularly likely would think of it like that. That kind of selfish thinking harms everyone else who follows the process, and potentially the student.

During reunification they aren't being removed from a violent disaster. The disaster is over and the goal is to get every kid back with their family safely first, and do it reasonably quickly second.

There are also police blockades and closed streets that the parent will have to push through to get where they told their kid they would pick them up at.

Kids get hit by cars regularly during normal dismissal. I'm sure getting hit by a car is more likely to happen while hiding from school staff and sneaking through heavy traffic full of adults (who are also parents and emotionally distraught operating heavy machinery) in order to get to your parents to circumvent the process that your school has planned and practiced for multiple times every year.

People really need to think. Things take time for a reason.

[u/ChillyTodayHotTamale → u/[deleted]]

It's what they call getting your kids back after an active shooting. Our local schools have a specific spot for parents to go in event of an active shooter where students will be brought to be "reunited" with their parents.

[u/YUNoJump → u/[deleted]]

Seems like that's the term for when kids go back to their families after a shooting. Says something about the state of things that school-shooting-related terms are becoming something people mention casually

[u/InboxMeYourSpacePics → u/[deleted]]

It’s not a new colloquial term- it’s been used by disaster preparedness organizations commonly since September 11th.