Student Arrested For Classroom Texting

[Wyatt]

shes in school to learn not to text. as far as im concerned she doesnt have a leg to stand on.

 

[Sewblon]

I never understood the appeal of texting, but arresting her is grossly uncalled for.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

fucking hate teenagers, and I'm sixteen!

Preach it brother/sister.

I find this highly amusing, but the sentence does seem a bit overboard.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Yeah, at least in the UK, sadly the teachers just have no powers whatsoever, they can't lay a hand on you, can't do anything without some little shit getting the police involved or reporting them for 'touching' them and violating their 'human rights'.

So they've evidently been left with one option, let the police deal with it. It's a horrible waste of police time and a huge overreaction, but it's probably the last option they have to get thru a damn class without some idiot kid distracting everyone.

I'm gonna sound like an old man who reads the daily mail here, and I'm entirely the opposite but damn, it was only 20 years agon I was in school, and back then you'd mess around, but if a teacher said they'd be contacting your parents, the shit stopped there. There is no way I wanted my parents to find out I'd been misbehaving, and I think that's a big source of the problem, that there's so little respect installed in kids towards their parents, teachers etc.

I'm not saying 'you should automatically respect your elders, you young whippersnapper, baaahh', but, your parents supply you with everything you need, and your teachers are trying to educate you, and in general most of the adults in society are just trying to stop you killing yourself or others, or just screwing up your future life.

I know if that had happened in my class the phone would have ended up in the teacher's draw til the end of class, maybe the end of term, and there'd have been no whining from the brat unless she wanted to explain to her dad why it had happened.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I've never felt the urge to say this at anytime in my life (before now), but it somehow seems appropriate: "Respect my authority!"

 

[Zersy]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0217092samsung1.html

FEBRUARY 17--A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, according to police. The teenager was busted last Wednesday at Wauwatosa East High School after she ignored a teacher's demand that she cease texting. The girl, whose name we have redacted from the below Wauwatosa Police Department report, initially denied having a phone when confronted by a school security officer. However, the phone was located after the girl was frisked by a female cop. The Samsung Cricket, the police report noted, was recovered "from the buttocks area" of the teenager. The student was issued a criminal citation for disorderly conduct, which carried "a bail of $298," and had her phone confiscated. The girl, who was barred from school property for a week, is scheduled for an April 20 court appearance on the misdemeanor rap. (4 pages)

0_o!!! Holy shit! WTF is going on here? This shit is serious and no joke. I think I would sue or some shit if I was the parents. This to me is pretty outrageous. I can understand her being busted at school, but a misdemeanor? I would at the very least get a very good lawyer and ream them in court.

The school went through all this to send a messeage to other students

for those of you who don't know what the message is it's "Stop texting in Class"

but ya this is way overkill

although she should have listend

 

[Drexic]

Ok...

I work at a High School as a teacher in progress..... (screw the official name)

look, if the parents did NOT teach the kids respect by then... the kid IS going to be a little fucktard to me getting the cops was the best choice, it is NOT over the top, when you have to deal with 120 little fucktard bastards running around calling each other idiotic and moronic things.... you kinda NEED to put the foot down and I hope that the teacher tried something else before getting the cops, i.e.... calling the parents? If that did not work then at that point I would get the law enforcement... i get paid to teach not to deal with little class room squabbles that take up time from teaching these 3rd grade reading level high schoolers.

(and this is high school..... middle is a LOT worse....)

 

[Greever]

A criminal charge does seem like a bit much, but how do we know she didn't do something else a little more drastic than "texting" to deserve it?

 

[AceDiamond]

Wonderful way to make the punishment not fit the "crime". Look I'm all for them cracking down on kids texting in class, but arresting is...well it's just hilariously over-the-top.

It's only a matter of time before ED-209 is telling people to put down their iPhones and they have 15 seconds to comply.

 

[FujinAkari]

This seems normal to me. If the girl ignored the teacher's command to stop, then she would have ignored a command to go to the principal's office. At least in my school, once security is involved, it is a police matter, not school.

 

[The Ghost]

Thats one way to make a point.

 

[nekolux]

This seems normal to me. If the girl ignored the teacher's command to stop, then she would have ignored a command to go to the principal's office. At least in my school, once security is involved, it is a police matter, not school.

0.o I really think this matter's gone a bit overboard here. If she ignored the teacher's request ( Command's too strong a word dont you think? this girl isn't in the military here she doesn't need to obey anyone's command. Just has to respect the teacher who's in charge ) she could have been told to stay out of the class. Given detention, had her cell confiscated.

It's the difference between a tazer and a gun here. Sometimes it's the same thing ( if an extreme form of vandalism or arson was involved ) but most of the time, it's rather stupid. Police should only be involved if it's against the LAW.

I mean seriously, teachers, i get that you have a hard job trying to keep these fucking kids in check but while she's wasting your time, you decide the best thing to do is to waste the police's time? I applaud your obviously superior intellect =)
While people are being robbed, stabbed, raped or beaten up. The police is out having to deal with a stupid teenage girl and a stupid teacher who can't handle being a teacher.

 

[Pigeon_Grenade]

it seems a bit extreme, she should have gotten an Essay that constituted 75% of her mark, i had a teacher do that to a student once, it was a 500 word Essay on 'why cellphones wont be Tolerated in class'

 

[scotth266]

An overreaction by the police, though the dumb broad deserves it somewhat...
Just goes to show you that when you don't listen to the teacher, bad things happen.
I hated the people who did this while I payed attention, so I feel no sympathy for the girl.

And what is with the "buttocks area"? Did she give herself a cell suppository or was it just in her back pocket? Not very specific, so I'm inclined to think the latter. Either way, she shoulda just turned it over. Things would've been less messy.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Well, she hardly deserved being arrested or charged with a crime, but at the same time, obey your goddamned teacher you little skank *****! WTF is with all these misbehaving little shits? Has parenting gone so far down the drain that this is what children have become?

Problem is it isn't entirely the parent's fault. Sure they bought this girl the phone, but really, what teenager doesn't have a phone (something that is sort of sad, I didn't have a cell phone until I was 16, but oh well they're everywhere). The parents aren't in class with the girl to tell her to stop texting and pay attention. This is a by-product of our ever increasing "cell" world, unfortunately this will happen more and more. Especially since young people with phones think it's important to text everything that happens to them at all times.

I'm not sure how this will get fixed, it will only get worse in my opinion unless the parents don't give the teen their cell phone until they earn it, which I am all for.

She should know better because her parents should have instilled the sense that such an act is innapropriat and rude. I'm not saying they should be there, but parents just don't seem to set boundaries anymore, they just let their kids have free reign over everything

A man (or woman) after my own heart (or [blank]).
It makes me feel forty years old to say it, but really... kids these days.
Bring back the cane.

Man

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Well, she hardly deserved being arrested or charged with a crime, but at the same time, obey your goddamned teacher you little skank *****! WTF is with all these misbehaving little shits? Has parenting gone so far down the drain that this is what children have become?

Problem is it isn't entirely the parent's fault. Sure they bought this girl the phone, but really, what teenager doesn't have a phone (something that is sort of sad, I didn't have a cell phone until I was 16, but oh well they're everywhere). The parents aren't in class with the girl to tell her to stop texting and pay attention. This is a by-product of our ever increasing "cell" world, unfortunately this will happen more and more. Especially since young people with phones think it's important to text everything that happens to them at all times.

I'm not sure how this will get fixed, it will only get worse in my opinion unless the parents don't give the teen their cell phone until they earn it, which I am all for.

She should know better because her parents should have instilled the sense that such an act is innapropriat and rude. I'm not saying they should be there, but parents just don't seem to set boundaries anymore, they just let their kids have free reign over everything

Well, ok. I will agree with you, but at the same time, do you really thing everything a parent tells a child, that child will heed and obey? No, they will not. Unfortunately they seem to think texting their "peeps" (my younger brother said it not me) is more important than learning, and I must respectively disagree.

Not as a teenager no, but the idea of respect should have been taught to her when she was too young to question it.

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

good, maybe the little diva can learn to put down the fucking phone once in a while

who the hell do you need to be texting during school? all of your friends are in school too! plus, you're going to see them once the fucking bell rings anyway!

i hate these little adolescent people who are constantly clicking away on their phones. the parents should just superglue the phone to their hands and be done with it

 

[mr_trooper]

WTF is with all these misbehaving little shits? Has parenting gone so far down the drain that this is what children have become?

To be honest dude, i cant say that its necessarily the parenting, but rather society in general. the whole world seems to be falling into a state of laxity. every child is a winner, everyone loves you, you wont be punished for your 'mishaps' as it might effect your fragile state of mind. i dont know where you live, but in brisbane/australia, our government last year tried to post legislation removing red pens from out schools. why? because children who see such a harsh colour upon their essays, in the form of a cross usually, would apparently break down or something ridiculous like that.

its all in society ahaha

 

[pha kin su pah]

Suspension or expulsion, but arresting is taking it a tad too far.