Comment by huhkerrf

> parents have instead decided that the better thing to fight for is their children having cell phones so they can hear the child's last words when the school shooting happens.

What's a ridiculous appeal to emotion. Between 2020 and 2022 there were 131 school shooting deaths, including suicides. Let's put those all in 2022, and assume that there were actually 0 suicides.

That means you have a 0.0026% chance to be killed (at most) in a school shooting. This is too much, but this is not the reason to allow cell phones in schools. Come on.