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Originally Posted by parmnion

One must wonder if any of this would have happened had her school banned mobile phones.

the incident with the two teenagers didn’t occur in school, and the incident with my daughters friend, the kid who sent it doesn’t even go to their school at all… and that girl doesn’t actually take her phone to school at all. I don’t think having them in school makes a difference really.

You could make an argument for “maybe they shouldn’t have phones at all” but they’re going to have them at some point, and in my opinion, it’s better for them to learn how to be responsible and navigate these situations early and while they’re young enough to get guidance with it, rather than being lobbed in at the deep end in their later teens.