Schools with no signal; How is this allowed?

[Galactor]

I haven't been able to get a signal in my kid's grade school, middle school, and now high school. I assume it's because they're built like a brick shithouse. Really thick, sturdy, brick walls.

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At least they are shooter proof?

 

[Rizific]

I didn't need a cell signal for my gba sp! These kids just don't know

 

[Illusion]

Newer schools are designed by the same people who make prisons. They are made with thick to withstand natural disasters and keeping kids safe.

Hence, cell phone signal is shit.

 

[xxracerxx]

What emergency besides a school shooting or a natural disaster would students need a cell phone?

 

[Walter White Walker]

At least they are shooter proof?

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There's only one way in and out. At the middle school, which was just built a few years ago, you have to go through the office to enter the rest of the building. The other ones you have to go by the office but I suppose you could go running past the office windows.
All of them have a resource officer or whatever they're called.

 

[TarpitCarnivore]

Schools got way more shit to worry about then "do we have cell service in bathrooms"?

 

[Josh5890]

I haven't been able to get a signal in my kid's grade school, middle school, and now high school. I assume it's because they're built like a brick shithouse. Really thick, sturdy, brick walls.

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Isn't the main reason schools are built like that is to withstand natural disasters and the spread of fires?

 

[Deleted member 7279]

There are certain places in my classroom that I can go where I know I will get a signal

Otherwise it is dicey

Unfortunately for this thread one of them is right in front of the windows

 

[Vilix]

School is haunted. Ghosts block the signals with their ectoplasm.

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They also makes phones sticky with their ectoplasm. 🤢

 

[StrangerDanger]

Does your child's school have Wi-Fi? I know a lot of high schools have wifi for students. Can easily use that to communicate instead

 

[AtomicShroom]

Boy am I glad to live in a portion of the world where "shootings" is the very least of your concerns regarding schools. The US is such a fucked up alien place, I swear...

 

[shaneo632]

I wish cinemas had signal blockers for mobile phones.

 

[Walter White Walker]

Isn't the main reason schools are built like that is to withstand natural disasters and the spread of fires?

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Yes. Especially in the greater Seattle area and a potential earthquake. Those building's aren't going anywhere should one hit.

 

[Josh5890]

I wish cinemas had signal blockers for mobile phones.

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co-signed

 

[Zoe]

I wish cinemas had signal blockers for mobile phones.

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But emergencies!

 

[KingM]

The point is, no one knows you're in there, you don't know how safe it is to leave, if it's safe at all, how are you supposed to call someone to let them know where you are or to figure out if it's safe yet?

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A PA call, announcement from police, first responders and staff checking all areas after the situation is clear, etc. There are, sadly, lots of procedures in place that account for someone not having immediate cell access.

 

[Brazil]

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