Hey, kids, don't take your phones to school

Per one of Johnny Cash's hits:

Pending Gov. Abbott's signature, student cellphones, except for medical and other authorized needs, will be banned from use on K-12 school campuses during the school day. The student safety issue of some parents is a red herring, especially with campus security meaning that if there is a shooter at school, it will be on a lockdown anyway.

My issue is that, as I have expected all along, the bill doesn't pay school districts for a magnetic lockbox system, because it specifies districts have the option of banning student cellphones from being brought to school in the first place.

Yeah, good luck with that, any superintendents and school boards who go that policy route. You'll get fragged by parents.

And, as I read it? The Trib's story has a big fail. The bill says it takes effect on Abbott's signature, not Sept. 1, if more than two thirds of both houses pass it. And, they did. (I tagged the Trib and its reporter on Shitter, and as normal from the Trib, have yet to hear back.)