The Georgia school shooting that left four dead and nine injured last week was every parent's worst nightmare, and one that highlights potential downsides to efforts among states, school districts and federal lawmakers to ban or restrict access to cellphones in classrooms.
'The fact of the matter is parents and families cannot rely on schools to effectively communicate with us in times of emergency, and this has happened time and again,' said Keri Rodrigues, president of the National Parents Union, an education advocacy group.
Moves to restrict phone use in schools have been driven by concerns about the impact screentime has on children's mental health and complaints from teachers that cellphones have become a constant distraction in the classroom.
Nationally, 77% of U.S. schools say they prohibit cellphones at school for non-academic use, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But that number is misleading.
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