What terminal car-brain does to a society
What terminal car-brain does to a society
It was dinnertime on October 30, 2024, when police handcuffed Brittany Patterson in front of three of her four children and drove her to the station in
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21954268
Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town
"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," says Brittany Patterson.
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A woman who saw him walking alongside the road—speed limit: 25 in some places, 35 in others—asked him if he was OK. He said yes.
Nevertheless, she called the police.
Traitor.
The plan (from child protective services) would also require Patterson to download an app onto her son's phone allowing for his location to be monitored.
If I were the child, I'd forget my phone at home very often. A town like that probably has a no-phone school anyways.
People don't care about children apparently. Spatial appropriation is an important aspect of childrens' development. Children cannot lobby for themselves in the same way most adult social groups can do.
The town has 375 people.
That's not a suburb...
Better?
Yup!
You aren't allowed to have a phone in school and my son is 10. The teachers will take it away.
You can have it you just can't take it out and use it
I think it depends on the school
No I mean even if you're not supposed to bring a phone, how is the school going to know if it stays in a closed backpack, turned off
My kid used to bring his Pokemon cards to school until someone stole a kids collection and then they were returned but they put out a notice saying no Pokemon cards.
Now can they check every backpack? No. Do kids talk? Very much yes. So if some kid brought it to school everyone would know.
I heard his teacher say "phones are not allowed at school and it's very serious." I am guessing it's theft related and they cannot be held liable if some kid loses their phone worth hundreds of dollars if it's stolen.
Yes, exactly. They don't want you to bring a phone for those reasons, but if the parent/kid understand the reason behind the rule, as well as the risks and responsibilities entailed in going against it, it's not going to hurt anyone to bring one and not use it or talk about it. But the school could never say this is allowed because they don't want to undermine the rule for all those reasons.