Edit: I'm sorry, you've called me "sus" because of what exactly? I never said I couldn't reason with my kids school.
The Find My functionality to locate friends or family was a thing on phones years before AirTags came out. Google even had a product called Latitude all the way back in 2010 if I recall correctly.
> a phone is not by default a device to track a kid an air tag is
I would be surprised if lots of parents were not using the Find My functionality to track kids with phones before AirTags came out. I also recall mobile networks selling it as an additional service to parents before Apple and Google rolled out their solutions.
Nowadays, even younger kids get Apple Watches for tracking purposes.
My parents didn’t have cellphones and they were fine, now with the US being MUCH safer than the 1980s/90s, those generations are now turning around and insisting on tracking the hell out of everything kids do. Insanity.