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Student Arrested For Classroom Texting

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Imagine what would have happened if this girl would have been talking on the phone, they’d have probably sent in a S.W.A.T. team.

A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
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Good, cell phones don't belong in high schools or with 14 year olds.
 
Stupid kids, all she had to do was text before/after class. Class is for learning, not socializing or keeping up with your friends bf/gf's and crap.
 
Gott said:
Good, cell phones don't belong in high schools or with 14 year olds.
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I agree with about half of that.

Phones are fine in school given they're either turned off or muted, but with 14 year olds... no. They shouldn't have them. Most kids that young are hardly mature enough to know how to use them accordingly with school rules.

I'm not sure I can say much, I text in the middle of class to. Though, I'm 18 (not 14) and my teachers hardly even care.
 
wow this may sound extreme, educational personnel cant do anything else nowadays with rowdy kids. touchy feely types wont let them do any sort of punishment, and parents dont give a shit.
 
Private_Ops said:
I agree with about half of that.

Phones are fine in school given they're either turned off or muted, but with 14 year olds... no. They shouldn't have them. Most kids that young are hardly mature enough to know how to use them accordingly with school rules.

I'm not sure I can say much, I text in the middle of class to. Though, I'm 18 (not 14) and my teachers hardly even care.
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They could have an emergency phone, those shrek phones which are programed to only be able to fial 911 fire, 911 medical, 911 police, and two custom pre-configured numbers (mom & dad for example).
 
Ockie said:
They could have an emergency phone, those shrek phones which are programed to only be able to fial 911 fire, 911 medical, 911 police, and two custom pre-configured numbers (mom & dad for example).
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That kinda sounds like torcher to me. Then again, I'm spoiled with texting. :p
 
/sigh. I agree something needs to be done, but I don't think a criminal case is warrented. There better be more to this story. :(
 
What ever happened to Detention, Saturday School, clean up duty, or being sent "To the office dun dun duuuuuuunnnnnn!"? Seriously
 
Druneau said:
Don't cell phone blockers/scramblers exist?
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You think a school is gonna dump that kinda money? Plus I think there's something illegal in doing that (don't count me on that, I just remember seeing something about that).
 
Being a teacher and having 30+ students in most classes throughout the day, I can't begin to tell you how distracting and time consuming this is. Most students now follow the rules halfway through the year, but the beginning of the year is such a major pita most of the time is spent disciplining and reprimanding students. Our district is on probation with the state so wasting that much time on discipline and trying to instill some sort of character and manners in students that their parents should have been doing since their kids were born puts an insane amount of pressure on teachers come CSAP time that honestly shouldn't be there. Teacher attrition in our school district is the highest its ever been and most of them just head off to the other school districts.

So all in all I say good for them. School is there to learn and if she wants to grow up to be a minimum wage worker then so be it.
 
vengence said:
/sigh. I agree something needs to be done, but I don't think a criminal case is warrented. There better be more to this story. :(
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You ever work in an educational environment before? Teachers cant do anything except send them to the principal who cant do anything except tell them "we are very angry with you, and we are going to write you a letter about how angry we are"
 
Did you guys even look at the attached police record? it's obviously fake... it talks about the female juvenile listed on the report, but lists a white male with the name Thomas on the report.....
 
I think it's retarded that she was arrested for "disorderly conduct" or even arrested at all. They should have confiscated the phone and gave her parents a call with some detention or something similar.

But arrest her? That's bullshit. Tell me you'd want your daughter ARRESTED for using a fucking cell phone in class? Yeah, sure ya would :rolleyes: Detention and confiscation is more like it.
 
Shambler said:
What ever happened to Detention, Saturday School, clean up duty, or being sent "To the office dun dun duuuuuuunnnnnn!"? Seriously
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I think detention plus taking her phone and calling her parents would have been more warranted.

Monkey God said:
You ever work in an educational environment before? Teachers cant do anything except send them to the principal who cant do anything except tell them "we are very angry with you, and we are going to write you a letter about how angry we are"
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Lol. Most people get here is ALC (detention).
 
Scramblers do exist, but unfortunately they're illegal in almost all circumstances. Something to do with FCC rules, I believe, but I could be wrong there.

However, I'm in full support of this kind of extreme action for such a small offense. She was warned, twice, and showed no remorse about lying to teachers AND police officers. It seems to me that kids feel like they're entitled to everything they damn well please these days. Doesn't the story say that she was "smiling and laughing" when the female police officer reported where she found her phone? It's that shitty, snide attitude that makes me feel not at all sorry for her. She got what she deserved, indeed.
 
lol, anyone read the police report?

PO Paula Roberson responded to my location and she asked <name> if she had a phone on her person and <name> stated "No". Paula did a search in my office and Paula did recover a Samsung Cricket cell phone from the buttocks area of <name>.

When I entered the office <name> was smiling and laughing as Paula told me where she recovered the phone.
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:p
 
Private_Ops said:
I think detention plus taking her phone and calling her parents would have been more warranted.
Lol. Most people get here is ALC (detention).
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I used to work as a school bus driver part time during the dot bomb era. Kids who act out dont have parents who give a shit, or they wouldn't be problem kids in the first place. Every single parent that I called to deal with a problem kid I either could never get a hold of, or didn't care.

Take her phone? What will do when she tells you to fuck off? Assault her and pry it out of her hands?

Detention? That only works for kids who for the most part do the right thing, and only need an occasional reminder of why not to goof around.
 
Monkey God said:
I used to work as a school bus driver part time during the dot bomb era. Kids who act out dont have parents who give a shit, or they wouldn't be problem kids in the first place. Every single parent that I called to deal with a problem kid I either could never get a hold of, or didn't care.

Take her phone? What will do when she tells you to fuck off? Assault her and pry it out of her hands?

Detention? That only works for kids who for the most part do the right thing, and only need an occasional reminder of why not to goof around.
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You've got a good point.
 
If I were a teacher, I'd have all the students sign a contract on the first day of class that if I caught them with a cell phone in my classroom, I'd be allowed to take it from them and smash it in the front of the classroom Gallagher style with a very large mallet.
 
Why doesn't the teacher just take her phone at the beginning of class?

When I was in high school (00-04) cellaphones weren't as main stream then but at least a third of my classmates had them. One of our teachers would have us turn off our phones and she would walk around with a basket made of wicker at the beginning of class and have everyone place them inside because people were constantly getting there shit blown up with calls throughout the entire class period.
 
Another effect of our lawsuit happy and children are sacred environment. Teachers can't do squat about discipline without getting sued for millions. Kids know they can do whatever the hell they want because no one can touch them or they'll just scream child abuse.

They shouldn't even be allowed to have phones in school.
 
I think cell phones are ok with limitations. My niece has one, but she has a limited number of text messages and minutes. She goes over and she has to wait till the next month.

I agree with most that parents don't have a handle on their kids. Parents seem to be "enablers" rather than "moderators".
 
BinaryMan said:
Did you guys even look at the attached police record? it's obviously fake... it talks about the female juvenile listed on the report, but lists a white male with the name Thomas on the report.....
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He rather be called a female, but the police filed under his native sex. :p
 
Kids pre HS should not have cell phones... unless they fully pay for it themselves.

That is the single reason I think t hey don't care. They know mommy and daddy will just get them a new one.

Im also jealous/pissed at how my parents handled my sister when it came to technology and when I asked the same things i was told to 'buy it yourself'.
 
Because we have neutered our educational system. Teachers are no longer allowed control of their class room. So something ridiculous as calling the police for a girl that wouldn't stop texting is now the norm.

That is how messed up our society is.
 
you do realize that creating a fear system in the school and supplanting the job of the parent with the state is going to lead to some bad news.

the parent should have been called first...not the police. a 14 year old doesn't comprehend "police" as a problem other than "daddy is going to kill me". A parent who is told "if your child doesn't own up, w e wiill be forced to call the police", the parent will freak. Parents have the right to search their children and are much easier to deal with when you lay the cut and dry options on the table.

This is like suspending 6 year olds for playing cops and robbers. No wonder we are laughed at. No wonder our kids do not want to learn or go to school. you are more reluctant to obey willingly when you are oppressed.
 
Monkey God said:
wow this may sound extreme, educational personnel cant do anything else nowadays with rowdy kids. touchy feely types wont let them do any sort of punishment, and parents dont give a shit.
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true. when I was in school and was caught with a pager or anything else like that, they'd take it away and give it back to you at the end of the day. If they caught you a second time, they'd keep it until the end of the school year.

It taught you to follow the rules (or get better at hiding it :p) real quick
 
Well if this little bratty bitch refused to give up her cell phone I wished the cops would have tazed her! I swear what happened to the good ol' days where the school actually used that whole idea that they were legally your guardian when you were on campus, which means they fucking grab something out of your hand and remove it. Now it's all "I'll fucking sue!" and shit like that, now teachers are powerless to do anything. Hell if two kids are fighting teachers are told not to break it up because the whole "I'll sue" mentality comes forth. Little Johnny or Suzy gets a bruise and it's the school's fault and they get a million dollar lawsuit that they bend over and pay.

IMO, I'm all for suspensions, hell expulsions, make the parents sign a contract when the kids first start school every year that states if they refuse to comply with an administrators commands they can be expelled from school. Plus any threats of a lawsuit will also get them expelled.
 
school districts dont WANT to expel kids because they get money per day per student. expelling the kids just punches the school budget in the wallet.
 
Shambler said:
What ever happened to Detention, Saturday School, clean up duty, or being sent "To the office dun dun duuuuuuunnnnnn!"? Seriously
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Parents started getting sue-happy.

I remember seeing my brother dragged to the principal's office to get his ass beat 25 years ago (he's a year older than me).

I remember seeing teachers slap a yard stick on someone's desk to frighten them into paying attention.

I remember a few detentions myself ;-)
 
The few thousand lost per student who's extremely rowdy and trouble for others is better than the hundreds of thousands lost when some teacher loses it grabs Johnny by the wrist to take him to the principle office and welfare mom ends up suing because an "unreasonable amount of force" was used on him.
 
Sorry I think that was a tad out of line, taking the phone away and suspension would have been better.
 
w1retap said:
If I were a teacher, I'd have all the students sign a contract on the first day of class that if I caught them with a cell phone in my classroom, I'd be allowed to take it from them and smash it in the front of the classroom Gallagher style with a very large mallet.
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Ok, I just wouldn't sign the contract.

I texted my way through high school classes all the time. Hell, in calculus, I brought in my laptop, a chicken sandwich, and a bottle of pellegrino everyday and told the teacher not to bother handing me out any work. My teachers were idiots and the subject matter was often wrong or ancient. WTF else are you supposed to do to keep from dying of boredom. All you people saying school is there to learn obviously haven't been in school for a long time. The only thing I learned in school was that ignoring all institutionalized learning and teaching myself was the only way I was going to get an education.
 
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