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The odds of a school shooting, while sadly too high, are still too infinitesimally low to affect any planning you and your kids make.

Carrying a phone just because of potential school shootings is like wearing body armor for the same purposes.

At least how it was when I was in school is that you could have a phone in your pocket, you were just not allowed to take it out during school hours. Doing so could result in it being taken for the length of the class and possibly some other penalty.

If my wife and I had children, we would 100% keep their phones at home every morning. They would not go to school with them, period. They're an unnecessary distraction during the school day (and my wife is a high school teacher).