School Cell Phone Rules

33girl · #1 11-29-2007, 01:56 PM

While they shouldn't have cellphones in school for the reasons Dee mentioned, I would have a REAL issue with the school keeping it till the end of the year. I'm assuming some of these phones have prepaid plans that you can't turn off, and I'd be irate if my money for the phone service was being wasted while it sat in a school office somewhere.

Please keep in mind that I'm relatively new to cell phone billing and such, but this isn't like keeping Johnny's slingshot for the year.

AGDee · #2 11-29-2007, 02:01 PM

I agree with you about that part and I'm sure I'd be furious.. I'm just not sure if I'd be more furious with my kid or the school. I think I'd be more ticked with the kid for not keeping the dang thing in their pocket/backpack or purse on THREE separate occasions. I think I would take their phone away from them after I had to pick it up from the office myself.

texas*princess · #3 11-29-2007, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by AGDee

I agree with you about that part and I'm sure I'd be furious.. I'm just not sure if I'd be more furious with my kid or the school. I think I'd be more ticked with the kid for not keeping the dang thing in their pocket/backpack or purse on THREE separate occasions. I think I would take their phone away from them after I had to pick it up from the office myself.

eeeeexactly!

it shouldn't be an issue if they would just follow the rules.

the parents should be mad at their kids for being idiots and taking it out during class for no reason in the first place. but of course nothing is ever the kid's fault anymore since all parents think their kids are perfect angels and are being picked on by the teachers

#4 12-09-2007, 07:11 PM

I would be furious at my son if he had it out when he knew he shouldnt be using it. I believe cell phones should be allowed on campus BUT either on off, vibrate or silent and definitely put away in a purse or in a pocket. With all these school incidents they need them ... it is valid to carry them. However, the school should not be able to keep them all yr long.

KSUViolet06 · #5 12-09-2007, 09:09 PM

My younger brother is in middle school right now, but the district rule is the same for MS & HS students.

The students can have them, but they are not to be seen or heard during school hours.

The district used to confiscate items, but parents got upset so they changed it.

If a teacher sees/hears a student's cell phone (or other electronic device that is not needed for school or medical reasons):

1st offense: verbal warning
2nd offense: after school detention
3rd offense: in school detention ALL DAY (you basically spend all day in detention and the teachers send your work down to you)
4th offense: 3 day suspension

This policy also includes: cell phones, pagers, laser pointers, two-ways, sidekicks, iPods, other MP3 players, etc.

GeekyPenguin · #6 12-10-2007, 02:11 AM

I had a cell phone in high school (my parents gave it to me right before I got my license) and I just don't recall it being a problem - I'd usually keep it in my car during the day, or if I brought it into school it'd be in my backpack on silent.

Apparently they now have a policy where after being busted for the third time for inappropriate cell phone use, they keep it for a year. It must be a bigger problem now. I never minded keeping my phone in my car because I'd see all my friends at school in the halls - we had our "meetup" spots.

epchick · #7 11-29-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

While they shouldn't have cellphones in school for the reasons Dee mentioned, I would have a REAL issue with the school keeping it till the end of the year. I'm assuming some of these phones have prepaid plans that you can't turn off, and I'd be irate if my money for the phone service was being wasted while it sat in a school office somewhere.

But at the same time, the school will only keep the phone at the 3rd offense. It isn't like the parents didn't know it was going to happen.

IDK about everyne else, but if my child reached the 2nd offense, i'll be damned if he/she keeps the phone. I'd take it away from them for the rest of the year.

AlphaFrog · #8 11-29-2007, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by epchick

IDK

IDK my BFF Jill?

Sorry - I found that acronym funny in a thread about cell phones.

Carry on.

SWTXBelle · #9 11-29-2007, 02:14 PM

I was teaching when cell phones became common. I usually gave kids one "freebie". If it rang again, I'd take up the phone, and go give it to the headmaster. The parent would have to come talk to the headmaster in order to pick it up.
I didn't have a problem with the phones in school as long as they were turned off. I knew that I would want my daughters (they were too young at the time) to have phones when they were older.
My favorite phone story - I'm giving a final when a phone rings. Andrea gives me a panicked look."Answer it", I say. It turns out to be HER MOTHER. Where, I ask you, did she expect her daughter to be at 10:00 in the morning on a school day? We laughed about it, and she turned the phone off.
Kids. I don't know what's wrong with these kids today.

NUBlue&Blue · #10 11-29-2007, 03:08 PM

I used to volunteer at the front desk at the HS and until the last two years there were supposed to be no cell phones in the school. First offense, parent had to pick up phone and student had Saturday school. Second offense, the phone was school property until the end of the year. This rule was in place when cell phones were mainly used for making drug deals (along with pagers, etc.). When oldest daughter was a freshman, her friend got Saturday school for standing in the parking lot calling her mom to pick her up from band. Puh-lease. (this was in 2001)

Now they can have them in school as long as they are off and kept in backpacks. I don't work in the office anymore, so I don't know what the current punishment is for using them. I know the teachers used to pick up lots of them during lunch and in the bathrooms between classes. My favorite was when a freshman's dad came in to talk about her phone getting confiscated "because we didn't know she couldn't have it in school" and she called him from somewhere in the school on somebody else's phone while he was at the desk talking to us. Another time a mother called and wanted us to page her daughter so she could get another mother's cell phone number from her friend. When we refused to call her to the front desk to take this very "important" call during school, she said "well, I'll just have to text her and if she gets in trouble it will be all your fault!"

ForeverRoses · #11 11-29-2007, 04:08 PM

My niece was telling me that at her high school, they have to put their backpacks against the wall away from the desks during tests. I never thought about it before, but I wonder if that helps cut down on the cell-phone as a cheating tool?

And I was in HS school when CarPhones where the big thing. If I remember correctly, they were actually installed into the car and where HUGE. I think the handpiece even had a wire connecting it to the base. Ahh, the good old days.