I want to see the answers on the right.
Just have to zoom out a little, nothing to it.
I know that tone of “Let’s talk.”
Kid, if anything ever goes wrong that requires intelligence, you are now in a very short of list of kids to blame first.
From the last answer, it sounds like they would only need to turn in their SIM card.
Should have run the responses by the staff member nobody likes to play against on board game night.
I feel attacked
Better response than the teacher’s:
Points for trying, but your series of questions are irrelevant non sequiturs.
Phones are banned, not just your, or any other particular physically manifested instance of the sublime, intangible, transcendent ideal of ‘a phone’.
The teachers answer is perfect. If the phone has the same number then it’s the same phone. If it has a different number then it’s going to be a pain for the student to update all his contacts “new phone, who dis”
- SMS and classic calls are dying. Things moved to Discord, Instagram, Snapchat, or whatever else for the most part
- Burner SIM, or better yet, burner eSIM. Maybe VoIP would suffice.
And the original SIM could still be used in some cheap older phone.
Although it seems everything in the US is a plan, meaning monthly payments. But perhaps I haven’t looked far enough.
where is this? here in sweden i don’t know anyone who doesn’t use sms and normal calls
What is your favorite brand of air fryer? It has come to my attention that air fryer’s brought to school may be liable for confiscation. Regardless, how are you doing on this fine October morning?
Banning cell phones in school while school shootings are a regular occurrence is top tier decision making
Students can keep a phone in their bag if they really need it. The fact that we ever allowed kids to scroll instead of paying attention in class is absurd.
I haven’t been to school in a while, but we had smartphones when I did. And if we took up our phones in class we got called out by the teacher.
My kids school “boxes” phones if you’re caught using them or they interrupt class. They lock them inside a clear plastic case and let you carry that.
This avoids liability because the kid still has possession of their phone and can still see an emergency text or call. The can’t interact with the phone but can get a teacher to unlock if there’s a visible emergency text
Thankfully, there’s an official standard for using the internet with just carrier pigeons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
“…this technology suffers from extremely high latency.”
and is probably prone to cat in the middle attacks …
I’m thinking 3/4oz #8 birdshot is the zeroday attack.
And high packet loss.
You know, pigeons probably do have relatively high latency but I bet a carrier pigeon could carry at least three SD cards, meaning a pigeon has hella bandwidth.
Truck bandwidth
Bandwidth is also impacted by distance though, across a school or town it would be incredibly high speed.
That kid who asked about radios should be given a scholarship to a STEM degree. Also the kids who asked about using smoke signals and pigeons have mad creativity. The stock kid? Well he probably has more financial accumen than most Wallstreet punks.
The kid with the replacement dilemma? Forget philosophy. That is lawyer material right there.
That reminds me of my previous work. We couldn’t but PCs from our project budget, because they are classified along furniture (because they should outlive the duration of a project), but we can buy replacement/repair parts. So yeah… Enough replacement parts make for a new PC.
