School Cell Phone Ban Leads to Gadget Storage Trucks
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Because the metal detectors were put there to detect cell phones.Cowabungaa said:
At my school, "no phones in class or the hallways" actually worked.Baresark said:
But then, that was a decade ago, when cell phones weren't ubiquitous.
Which sort of goes to your point, but I think more accurately there's a point that we can't change society via the school system, and punishing people for what's become socially acceptable never seems to work. And it's not just "kids these days," either. Seems like 90% of anyone under 50 is glue to their phones to the point that they don't see a problem with shining their phones in my eyes at the movies to text, or stop a thought mid-conversation because they got a new text/e-mail.
It took it as "it would be bad enough an idea even if the school didn't have a gun problem.Zen Toombs said:
That would be great if all high schoolers were minors. Hell, some of the kids in my school were parents. Explain to me exactly who SHOULD be the emergency contact for their kids?Scars Unseen said:
Naked and on fire? Bah, we were forced to wear 50 lbs. of lead lined wool so that the fire would keep burning. Random passers by were encouraged to spray us with lighter fluid. Our lava didn't flow up hill or down, it flowed in a series of separate but adjacent vortexes. The dogs that chased us were coated with barbed wire and had bees in their mouths so when they barked they shot bees out of their mouths. And these weren't your ordinary bees. These were bees the size of tennis balls. Heck, I wish we had blizzards once in a while. It would have taken our minds off of the baseball sized hail we had to deal with the rest of the year, which was made worse by the gale force winds. However, the absolute worst part was the giant squids. Damn things were bred to live in lava like it was water. And they had razor blades where you'd expect there to be suckers.redisforever said:
OT:It's ridiculous that they can't go a day without their phones. However, I'd honestly prefer that they keep them then the alternative. So what if they're texting in class, at least they aren't talking out loud. That way the kids who actually give a damn about their futures can concentrate on what's being taught.
1. There can be people 18 or 19 years old in high school. In fact the normal age for graduation is 18. Not a minor.Scars Unseen said:
2. I cannot count the number of times I got a call while my grandparents were in the nursing home asking if they could take her to the hospital because she was having problems. My father had power of attorney. If they had taken her without getting consent it would be their ass on the line if my dad refused to pay the bills.
I'm impressed, whoever thought of the idea of these trucks is an absolute genius. I can safely say that while students at m school would get their cellphones confiscated if they were caught using them, we didn't have metal detectors and were just encouraged to leave the device in our lockers, or just power it down during class, so the idea of a storage truck would never even have occured to me.
Wow. The economy must be pretty awful if $500-$600 a day is paying for a truck, two people to staff it, AND insurance in NYC.
Do schools in your area not have landlines? I wouldn't send my kids to (or, when I was younger, I'd have refused to attend) a school too disorganised to be able to pass on a message to a student.Sarah Frazier said:
On the other hand, I did raise absolute hell with my boss last year when she decided in her infinite wisdom(!!!) that instructors shouldn't have phones on session at all. Suffice to say, I never went (and never will go) on an outdoor activity session without a phone.
Now they're considering those beepity, boopety little flashing machines that keep people's fingers glued to them dangerous enough to ban them, along with weapons!? and people trust two complete strangers to stash away such dangerous devices in a dubious little truck!??, madness!.
