Student Arrested For Classroom Texting

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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)

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

Now you know that she isn't a virgin mobile. Crazy high schoolers.
 
i just got unlimited texting
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Originally Posted By: wcbcruzer
High schoolers are a pita to deal with everyday. They should really pay the teachers more.


That's why the discipline portion has been outsourced to the police. The cops are just about the only people who can discipline a kid and not get sued.
 
Why was she arrested?... Why is this news?... every day schools have to deal with unruly kids. So now the police are called in to discipline them??
 
I think the $300-$1000 that the charges will cost the parents will result in more civil obedience from the child. Their house, their rules. Our kids had pagers before cell phones were cheap enough. We wanted to know where both of the older kids were. If they didn't return a page ..there were consequences. Oldest daughter started playing with it in class and got it confiscated. Due to her not having the pager, she surrendered the freedom that it afforded her.
 
What ever happened to being sent to the principal's office and letting him / her dole out the punishment? Now the taxpayers are paying for city police to show up at schools to discipline kids for refusing to hand over a phone? OMG, why don't we just post a city officer in every classroom?

1st offense: 3 day suspension. 2nd offense: 10 day suspension. 3rd offense: Expulsion. This will get as much attention from parents as a stupid fine, which is really just parents throwing money at the problem. If they actually have to deal with the kid during the suspension or expulsion, the parenting will resume. (One would hope).
 
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1st offense: 3 day suspension. 2nd offense: 10 day suspension. 3rd offense: Expulsion. This will get as much attention from parents as a stupid fine


You're under the assumption that this girl (or any student at random) lives in a functional household.

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If they actually have to deal with the kid during the suspension or expulsion, the parenting will resume. (One would hope).


They're probably not capable of dealing with the kid. This can be due to a number of things. They can either be too busy and should have rethought the enterprise of offspring to begin with ..or just have offspring ..and let the chips fall as they may in outcomes.

"That's how dad did it! That's how America does it! ...and it's worked out pretty lousy so far." - Tony Stark - NOT.
 
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
They're probably not capable of dealing with the kid. This can be due to a number of things. They can either be too busy and should have rethought the enterprise of offspring to begin with ..or just have offspring ..and let the chips fall as they may in outcomes.
(...) Maybe the kid is better off for it then. There's always wolves and whatnot, but then again some kids just won't be dealt with... period.
 
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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)

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

Now you know that she isn't a virgin mobile. Crazy high schoolers.



It's a world wide problem.

Earlier this month I was watching a Buddhist ceremony in a Dzong near Panuka, Bhutan. The Chief Abbot was in attendance (Buddist equivalent of the the Pope of Bhutan). We were in an observation area over the ceremony, there were about 40 monks sitting cross legged on the floor in 4 rows. From our vantage point we could see one of the young monks was text messaging on a phone partially hidden in his robes. He got caught, there wasn't much fuss then, but I suspect his immediate future isn;t going to be pleasant.
 
When I was in school we couldn't be frisked without our parents' consent (or we could at least demand their presence-- thereby delaying events.)
 
There is also the element of cheating that would certainly increase if texting were not restricted in schools.
The internet is available , and who knows what a student is doing.

Arrested? Sounds severe, and it should only be considered after the chain of command has been gone through.
 
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Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
They're probably not capable of dealing with the kid. This can be due to a number of things. They can either be too busy and should have rethought the enterprise of offspring to begin with ..or just have offspring ..and let the chips fall as they may in outcomes.
(...) Maybe the kid is better off for it then. There's always wolves and whatnot, but then again some kids just won't be dealt with... period.


Where wolf?
 
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