Some SI Kids Cell Phone-less for 45 Days

wat if a kid get kidnaped if somethoing happens after school on the way to school a phone is neaddedddddddddddddddddddd

this school has ac leaking in class .confiscating belts.teachers making us buy shirts for school.it is stupid .even cell phones.we go to school to learn .we are sapose tp go to school .we should have a small benefit of a cell phone .the teachers shoould not as even talk to us about tat just teach us and leave us alone

I think it is important for kids to have cell phones. It is always important to have constant contact with your children.

Is it really necessary to have cell phones in schools? The argument from parents that they are a "lifeline to their children," is bogus. Kids are smart; if they don't want to be contacted, they turn their phones off. If they must be contacted in school, they can always be reached. "Public safety" is not the issue.

Children cell phone addicts are responsible for the problem they alone have created. They, including their supposedly wiser adult counterparts, are unconscious, disrespectful, discourteous and obnoxious. Public transportation and areas; doctors' offices; theaters; restaurants; checkout lines; just about everywhere. In their own dream world walking in the street, or "driving" their cars. His or her inanities, everyone's business. Unable to bear silence or be by, or with, themselves for a moment. Totally oblivious to --- and inconsiderate of --- their neighbors.

If parents need a lifeline to their children, cell phones outside of schools would be appropriate.

When I was in high school so many moons ago I had a friend whose mother was dying of cancer and my friend never called her mother when she was at school.

The article says the girl with the sick mother calls her mother after school as she's leaving for her job. Why would this girl need her cell phone the rest of the day? Let her leave it in her locker and then she never has to worry about it getting confiscated.

Kids having cell phones is a moot point. From what I just read, it seems like they're being confiscated because they're possible objects of theft. That makes a lot of sense. You're ipod or phone could be stolen, so we'll steal it first. The inability of the school to prevent crime doesn't give it the license to perpetrate it. That's penalizing the potential victim.

I went to a high school with well over 1,000 students and, amazing is it may seem, we all made it through 4 years with a total of 2 pay phones in the building. This is, of course, before the advent of cell phones.

How often do you call your parents as a teenager anyway? I can't remember ever calling home unless it was from a friend's house and I was planning to stay later than normal.

School, after-school sports/clubs/music groups/whatever, and home after that. What is the big fucking deal?

I weep for future generations. Parents are far too eager to coddle kids with gadgets and $ while neglecting the important things (teaching these kids manners, self-reliance, personal responsibility, resourcefulness, etc.)

I think the student should be able to carry their cell phones with them in school. Put them in silence mode and lock it up in a bag or bookbag. If the phone goes off during class the teacher should confiscating it then.

remember when you weren't even allowed to chew gum?

kids these days, they're spoiled and just plain rude. i blame the parents.

the school can make whatever guidelines it wants, the brats kids are going to have to respect those guidelines and turn the phones off and leave them in their lockers. the confiscation may have gone a bit far, though.

One thing that keeps getting overlooked in this is the issue of kids taking photos in the bathrooms. Becoming a real issue yet follows the "no calls in class" rules.

Makes smoking in the boys room seem real quaint.

By confiscating a cell phone for over a month, you're pretty enforcing a fine, as most cell phones come with monthly dues which can't be frozen. That's forty dollars down the drain, which is significant for a lot of the people who go to McKee H.S., a vocational school.

You are all looney. Ever tried FINDING a pay phone? They barely have them anymore! Even if they have them, you're one lucky dog if they work. Now imagine 2 pay phones for, what, 800 students in a school? And one or both are usually broken? Yea right.

Kids should be able to bring their cell phones to school- off, in the bags, locked away. If a student's phone goes off once, opps, it's an accident, never mind. If a student is using the phone in class or letting it ring off the hook, they get written up and get in real trouble. Why is that so hard?

I'm all for confiscating students' cell phones when they get caught using them in school, but 45 days just for having one does seem like a bit much to me.

I didn't have a cell 'til my junior year of college (2003) and was able to make do with pay phones, but when visiting a teacher at my high school last year I discovered that their pay phones spend most of their time broken these days. (Of course, that situation still doesn't make cell phones necessary. If you're really in a bind, an administrator or secretary will let you use a school phone to call.)

Yo! YO! wHAT UP SON! Hey give me fries and 2 apple pies YO! cause that's what homey will be doing when he can't graduate because he was text messaging during class. Fucking urban people make me sick

I don't mind them using them in schools. After all, I'm not in the schools.

The bus drivers should confiscate them...

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McKee is a Vocational high school. That 'splains the language.

Calling before you go to your after school job is the most inane use of a cell phone ever.

What if you're abducted on your way to your job. Your parents won't know you are missing until hours later. How about calling >from your job

I'm with everyone else. I made it through years of school (including jobs, clubs, buses, missing buses), and I never had a cell phone. Get a grip. These things are a distraction to education... anybody who doesn't realize that is in seriously denial.

People are confusing convenience w/ necessity. Parents need to give their kids $1 in quarters and teach them how to use payphones.

How did I ever make it through HS w/o a cell phone?

/snark

School nurse called if I got sick. If I missed the school bus, called my mom from a pay phone and sat down with a book until she was able to leave work to get me (though asking her to leave the office was incentive enough not to miss the bus).

"This is called enforcing rules for our children so late in life that they not only don't know how to deal with it, they don't recognize anyone's authority to do it."

You got that right.

When I was in school, nobody had cell phones, and we did just fine.

10 years ago kids lived without cell phones and all of a sudden they're necessary, please. Leave them at home!

***"You can't just take a phone like that. It's mad wrong," said Kendra Waller, 16***

This is called enforcing rules for our children so late in life that they not only don't know how to deal with it, they don't recognize anyone's authority to do it.

***"There's gonna be a fight with my mom and them, 'cause she paid for that phone," Miss Waller said.***



Isn't Miss Waller's mother paying for Miss Waller's education as well? I think she needs to ask for her money back. Meanwhile, Miss Waller can practice saying, "You want fries with that?" for use later in life.

"Mad wrong?" That's a very convincing argument. Maybe it would be a good idea for students to leave these things home in the first place if they are so likely to get stolen anyway.