Student Arrested For Classroom Texting

[Lonan]

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You guys should watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAck24Nzh-g
It's an awesome take on cellphones, by the Arrogant Worms.
JOIN ME IN BEING A CELLPHONE VIGILANTE!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, my mom got me a cellphone for Christmas, and I shook myself out of my beserker rage just seconds before destroying the foul abomination of machinery. Thankfully, the free call time has run out, so I can justify letting it decompose from now on. There's no way I'm buying time for that wretched machine.

 

[Graustein]

Unfortunatly, sometime even taking a distracting object from a student can get the parents pissed at you.
I remember one of my teachers telling me a story about some parents trying to sue a school for confiscating their kids yo-yo. Apparentaly he kept whiping it out and playing with it in the middle of class, so the teacher took it way.

Not surprised in the least. Parents aren't nearly as willing to discipline their child. Some parents think they are doing just fine with their spoiled brat kids. I'll tell you what, if the parents do things for their kids to make them happy, they will fail. If parents instead do things for their kids to make them succeed, they will progress.

Not necessarily. Parents should aim to do both. I went to a school for gifted (ie. hardworking) people. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 90% or more of the kids were asian kids whose parents pushed them extremely hard to succeed, very much at odds with the actual importance of the HSC (is it important? Yes. Is failing it the end of the world? Hell no). Our school may have an average UAI (the mark required to get into uni) of around 99.50 (out of a maximum of 100), but it also has a uni dropout rate of around 50%. Why? Because the kids aren't well-adjusted enough because of a lifetime being made to "excel". I'm glad I'm not one of those kids.

Ok, that's off-topic. Basically saying that a balance is necessary.

Irresponsible teens come from irresponsible parents. Man, I wonder what her PARENTS think of this...

According to the report in the link, her mother was contacted around the time she was arrested. She was in tears, but didn't (I think, it appears to be slightly ambiguous on this point) blame the police for it.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

What the fuck were the police involved? Tell the ***** to GTFO and go home if she wants to text.

 

[KenzS]

Gotta love the American education system, flawless.

 

[Chickenlittle]

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?

Parents can't use discipline anymore. The courts can't tell the difference between a good smack or spank and abuse. Sad, really.

 

[scoHish]

Hell, give the chick a 20 page essay on appropriate cell phone use, and make her text the whole thing. Give her some Arthritis, that'll teach her...

 

[maddawg IAJI]

i dont get why most parents dont take the phone from the teenager before school.

 

[Filtertip]

i dont get why most parents dont take the phone from the teenager before school.

Kind of understand what your saying but in other ways its very usfull to have one on you. Granted when i was in school i din't turn my phone off id just stick it on slient so i would know if i have a message, id then read it after my class.

This dos seem a little stuped but on the other hand what else can be done these days, id sure think twice about refusing to hand my phone over if "that girl in my class got nicked for it"

 

[Kadamon]

Well, it probably started as a "Well, she won't listen to me maybe she'll listen to the police" and then she obstructed and didn't follow the cop's orders, which is obstruction of justice.

"Come on people, you don't have to text, that's what notes are for." Now you can tack a "and it gets you arrested" on the end of that.

 

[Sewer Rat]

While classmates who text in class piss me off to no end this is ridiculous...

 

[LifeSarcastic]

fucking hate teenagers, and I'm sixteen!

Same here. Things seem to be getting worse.

 

[PirateKing]

Getting arrested and charged is a bit much I think. The amount of texting that went on in my high school classes and now my college classes would've had people arrested every day. This is being blown out of proportion. Though she might deserve it for being a jerk.

 

[Echolocating]

I don't know if it's been mentioned, but if texting during class is a crime then I want to exercise some citizen's arrests at the movie theatre.

 

[chronobreak]

Let her fucking text, who gives a shit. If she doesn't want to learn you can't force her. Arresting her is a gross misuse of police power and taxpayer funds.

 

[hopeneverdies]

God I hate how people can't not talk to someone for 5 minutes. I mean, I have a cell phone and I bring it to class, but I only pull it out to check the time.
Did they have any info on what the text was?

 

[13lackfriday]

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.

I have to agree with your first statement.
Way too often I'm in class trying to keep up with the lesson, while the guy/girl next to me taps away to their heart's content, the teacher totally oblivious.
When they do get caught though, they're usually cooperative enough to surrender the phone to the teacher for the day, and it's only escalated so far as the teacher threatening to call campus security.
While I totally agree it was a disproportionate punishment, unruly, defiant teenagers like that do need some kind of disciplinary action to teach them respect and compliance.

 

[the hap]

Have detentions been banned in the five years that I've been out of high school?

When I was in school, kids who did this kind of stuff got detentions and the only time the police would get involved is if someone did something very fucking illegal like bringing a homemade bomb or drugs to school.

 

[Broken_Flavors]

Wow... that really sucks. Did they just decided to skip the whole, detention/referral step when it comes to applying discipline? That's just a ridiculous punishment.

My high school really isn't strict with the whole non-texting policy, so I guess I'm lucky.