Have a link saying phones were banned at the camp?
That kind of blows this open and has serious ramifications regardless of any conspiracy. Makes this an at-fault situation in my opinion.
Edit: can't find anything in news sources, but people on various social media claiming to be familiar with the camp say the signal is usually non-existent to bad there, so maybe more of a infrastructure issue than a dangerous policy.
It’s not irregular. My kids have been to various camps over the last 4-5 years. There has been a no phone policy at each. Some will allow it at bed time or at least not enforce it. Generally everyone watching the kids will have one and a radio so it’s not like communication doesn’t exist. They just want kids to unplug and get involved which lets all be honest, it’s impossible if they have their face in a phone the whole time.
Sounds good in theory, but irresponsible in practice as this incident shows, not to mention the baseline risk of child molestation inherent in leaving your children in the woods with strangers that would be significantly mitigated by access to call police, home or emergency services, even if it were simply the threat of such.
If you don't want them to use a smart phone they still sell dumb phones at any Walmart for under 20 bucks as of a few months ago, with 20 dollar burner service, or you could simply remove the sim card from their phone so they can't use the internet and can still call emergency services.
Have a link saying phones were banned at the camp?
That kind of blows this open and has serious ramifications regardless of any conspiracy. Makes this an at-fault situation in my opinion.
Edit: can't find anything in news sources, but people on various social media claiming to be familiar with the camp say the signal is usually non-existent to bad there, so maybe more of a infrastructure issue than a dangerous policy.
It’s not irregular. My kids have been to various camps over the last 4-5 years. There has been a no phone policy at each. Some will allow it at bed time or at least not enforce it. Generally everyone watching the kids will have one and a radio so it’s not like communication doesn’t exist. They just want kids to unplug and get involved which lets all be honest, it’s impossible if they have their face in a phone the whole time.
Sounds good in theory, but irresponsible in practice as this incident shows, not to mention the baseline risk of child molestation inherent in leaving your children in the woods with strangers that would be significantly mitigated by access to call police, home or emergency services, even if it were simply the threat of such.
If you don't want them to use a smart phone they still sell dumb phones at any Walmart for under 20 bucks as of a few months ago, with 20 dollar burner service, or you could simply remove the sim card from their phone so they can't use the internet and can still call emergency services.