Gothamist: Penny For Your Thoughts, Quarter To House Your Cell Phone

rob

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:26:16 -0500

"parents and students say cell phones are necessary in case of emergencies." i remember being called to the principal's office to receive news that my mother had been in (what would prove to be) a fatal car accident. i didn't have a cell phone then, and thank god for that, as i doubt anyone could handle such a call from his father during calc class. students claim need for phones for emergencies as a simple act of parental placation, knowing full well their intent to text and disrupt. modern parents consider an "emergency" to be that they won't be home until late tonight because they found something better to do than watch over their children. despite the new common knowledge, emergencies did in fact exist prior to the cellphone, and this issue is just the latest sluice off the maladroit parent-teenager dynamic present in western society and i don't see why my tax dollars should go toward such nonsense. the city wouldn't be disenfranchising kids by restricting cell phone usage in public schools.

dk

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:28:57 -0500

i grew up in a suburb of NYC and during my time in middle school and high school (yes, i was born in 1985 - u do the math) mostly everyone had a cell phone and the rule was that if it rang in class, teachers were allowed to take it away and could pick it up at the office at their earliest convenience. this was a simple solution to a simple problem and it worked. kids had their cells, parents knew their whereabouts and teachers were not distracted.

lorangus

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:51:48 -0500

anybody know how somebody with children can get their kids to not go to public school with thugs and hoodlums ie. black and hispanics?

koko

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:47:09 -0500

So you are telling me that we have to pay money for overweight fat urban kids who yell and talk real loud ghetto speak and don't study and will be working at Duane Reade or Mcdonald's for the rest of their life to house their cell phones?

Kojak

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:45:29 -0500

Put Cell Phone Jammers inside classrooms. Problem Solved.

"Rev" Al Sharpton

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:36:34 -0500

The white government better make the lockers big enough for the "students" to store their knives & guns.

Third Person Jesus

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:26:21 -0500

Jesus loves the entitled teens

stewart

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:21:32 -0500

I can believe I managed to make it to adulthood alive without a cell phone.

Brightliner

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:07:05 -0500

It won't work. These are kids we're talking about here. Kids are notoriously hard on public property. They'll lose their keys, jam the locks, bend the doors, etc.

Jen

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:03:11 -0500

Well, the DOE is looking for options that don't require any outlay of money.

edEx

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:00:09 -0500

glad to see the nyc public school system is spending our tax dollars on cell phone lockers.