Should The Parkland Shooting Change How We Think About Phones, Schools and Safety?
Security experts say allowing students to have their phones with them during the school day is unlikely to make anyone safer. Maybe even the opposite.
by Erin B. Logan
Feb 17, 2018
3 minutes
While Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was on lockdown, with an active shooter in the building, students were on their phones.
They were tweeting. They were posting on Snapchat and sending videos to friends and family. They were calling their parents to let them know they were safe and texting classmates to find out if they had survived.
Some of those posts may become evidence in the case of , who has, according to court documents, confessed to the killing of 17 students and school personnel. This visceral record of the horrifying
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