Education

After witnessing what happens at school when there is a live shooter threat, I will fight to keep my kiddo’s right to keep his phone on his person unless and until he is safe at school. The rule in our house is he MUST abide by each teacher’s rules about phones in class. If he does not, I won’t go to bat for him on it. He has always done that.

Last spring, during an active shooter threat, that phone in my son’s pocket was his lifeline to me. I was able to find out where he was in the school and could communicate to him what was happening outside the building. His exact text to me “Mama is this the day it happens here? Should I keep hiding or should I run for it? I don’t know what to do. Everyone is scared.” Those could have been his last words to me.

The trade off is something I’m willing to accept.

ETA: Has anyone here tried calling a school lately? You can’t get anyone on the phone during the day, let alone during an emergency