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A blanket ban on cell phones in schools will hamper teachers and staff too. Plus, the usual reason why jamming is illegal in most countries: dialling emergency numbers!


I wonder if they could wire the jamming system into the fire alarm. Pulling the alarm turns off the jamming.


Why go that far?

Get approval to run your own short-range cell site that has a whitelist of IMEI (or IMSI, if that's not available) numbers, and blocks all non-emergency calls made by any phone that's not on the list.

Put the staff on the whitelist, and give parents the option to put their phones on the whitelist when they're visiting.


I'm not going to pull the fire alarm if my friend is having an epileptic seizure.


We've gone many generations without cell phones at schools with trained professionals who are qualified to handle seizures. You don't need a cell phone to contact someone who can get medical assistance on a school campus.


I don't know how things work where your live, but I'm willing to bet my right hand that there is not a single person in my school that knows what to do in case of a seizure.


Epilepsy training is bog standard for teachers. Just because the kids don't know how to handle it doesn't mean that the teachers won't.


Landlines do still exist.




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