Gen Zs resurrect Y2K-era hack to rebel against school cell phone bans

Students banding together against the ban — in the most millennial way possible.

Displeased Gen Zs are keeping the lines of communication open amid new cell phone bans in schools, chatting with one another via Google Docs on their laptops as a substitute for text messaging.

“A bunch of high school kids are creating a Google Doc with their friends, they all have real-time access to it, and they just type into it during class time,” Valerie Elizabeth Dickinson, a teacher and content creator, revealed in a trending TikTok . 3

“So, they’ve basically reinvented the AOL chat room,” she laughed, likening the youngsters’ old-school stunt to the Y2K-era platform, which allowed dial-up internet users to virtually engage in group text conversations on their computers.

And folks over age