Electra T wrote:
GOOD THING or BAD THING? It's already been done in my school and in NYC its only a matter of time until its in everyones school. I read something saying that if it works here in NY it might be applied elsewhere, any opinions? Personally I find it extremely dangerous post 9/11 and it's really only a slight incovenience that doesn't deserve such strong measures.

A few of my friends had a petition witth 1500 signatures, our principal I believe sent it to the chancellor who ignored it. Now they've created a big petition for parents....

What do you mean by banned?

BCG wrote:
you should be learning, not gabbing on the phone.

Yah but I've never witness anyone chatting it up in class. My school has I think 3500 kids in it with 1 pay phone. We've always had the ban but the difference was that if u were caught using it IN CLASS it was supposed to be confiscated.

Melissa Lynnette wrote:

What do you mean by banned?

I mean you aren't allowed to have them. In my school they have metal detectors and if it goes off they take you cell and any electronics u have one u. Strangely enough they took my ipod and lost it so they had to give me a new one. This ban is silly and dangerous

Electra T wrote:

Yah but I've never witness anyone chatting it up in class. My school has I think 3500 kids in it with 1 pay phone. We've always had the ban but the difference was that if u were caught using it IN CLASS it was supposed to be confiscated.

i have heard of kids taking picures of the tests and sending them to their friends...no phones...and bring back school uniforms.

Lens N Light wrote:
About time! You should leave your phone in your locker, turned off during classtime. I wish I could convince people to do that in restaurants. My favorite has a dead zone. Not sure how they did it, but inside - no service.

That locker business is fine, but they won't allow us to bring it at all! This is high school, too many of us have after school jobs and longgg ass rides home for that stuff. I don't get out of school until 7 or 8 o'clock cuz i'm in the lab and I work in school.

Electra T wrote:

Yah but I've never witness anyone chatting it up in class. My school has I think 3500 kids in it with 1 pay phone. We've always had the ban but the difference was that if u were caught using it IN CLASS it was supposed to be confiscated.

I never needed a phone in school.
I think I called home once in 4 years.
I'll bet you see lots of your friends texting each other in class.
I won't even tell you how many jammers (yeah, I know they're illegal) I've helped install in churches and theaters.

BCG wrote:

i have heard of kids taking picures of the tests and sending them to their friends...no phones...and bring back school uniforms.

Well I've heard of kids writing answer on the inside of watet bottle wrappers of on the bottoms of their shoes..should we ban those?? No, if it became serious and out of hand you'd check shoes and water bottles..or in this case you'd collect the phones. Its pretty simplee.

Electra T wrote:
It's a safety issue, I don't think its safe to send kids of to East New York, Crown heights, FLATBUSH and Bushwick without there cell-phones.

Tell me how having a cell phone has made them safer, has the posession of cell phones some how stopped crimes ? If so, I think the alarm and fire arm industry is screwed.

Claudette V wrote:
I think students should be allowed to bring them to school but should not use them while in school.  Kids travelling to and from school may need their cell phones for emergencies.  So long as they dont use them while in class I dont see why the city should make a problem.

Do you honestly believe that if high school students are allowed to bring them to school they wont use them.

As far as I know all high schools have the same ban in Cincinnati.

Scott Meyer wrote:

Do you honestly believe that if high school students are allowed to bring them to school they wont use them.

As far as I know all high schools have the same ban in Cincinnati.

Cincinnati has bans on everything lol

Scott Meyer wrote:

Do you honestly believe that if high school students are allowed to bring them to school they wont use them.

As far as I know all high schools have the same ban in Cincinnati.

I think if they use them in school then they should be confiscated.  This way only the kids who break the rules get punished.

Lens N Light wrote:
About time! You should leave your phone in your locker, turned off during classtime. I wish I could convince people to do that in restaurants. My favorite has a dead zone. Not sure how they did it, but inside - no service.

Either a coincidence or they are illegally blocking transmissions.  Illegally because it is against the law to interfere with any communication devices.  This is why movie theaters have to ask you to turn off your phones.  Otherwise they would block them on purpose.

Glamour Boulevard wrote:

Cincinnati has bans on everything lol

not riots.

Electra T wrote:
GOOD THING or BAD THING?

Yay

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When I have kids the rule will be "No cell phone until you can pay for it yourself."  I may or may not choose to lend it to them when they go out with their friends so that they can call me if they need a ride.  Regardless it will be locked to making calls home or to my cell phone or home number.

Glamour Boulevard wrote:

Tell me how having a cell phone has made them safer, has the posession of cell phones some how stopped crimes ? If so, I think the alarm and fire arm industry is screwed.

Sure, this girl on church ave(flatbush) got into a fake taxi on her way home from Erasmus high school. She used her cell phone to get help. This girl in Newark NJ, was kidnapped and they traced her cell phone. You've never watched the news and heard "the victim used her cell phone to call for help". I sure have, in fact I heard it today on NY1 in the morning. There are better options than telling teens and PARENTS to leave there cells at home. A cell phone is not a gun and a parent should have the right to determine whether they want there kids to have one. Not only that but from what I've heard and from my own experience High Schools don't have a plan of action in case people need to reach there parents. I'm sure on 9/11 kids were reaching there parents when they heard what happend and for a lot of ppl it was helpful.

Claudette V wrote:

I think if they use them in school then they should be confiscated.  This way only the kids who break the rules get punished.

That was the original rule,  but teachers weren't inforcing it.

Ed Remington wrote:
Yeah, you might be screaming it's an emergency thing, but somehow I get the feeling that you are using that excuse because you can't be chatting up your friends during school hours, or on the way home from school. Oh, I'm sure if you research it, there is a ton of evidence to support your claim, but why don't you look around for a second. Everyone you see over 30-35 yrs old, never had a cell phone in school. Yet, and this may be a shocker to you but guess what...They're still alive!!!

Please...This argument is even worse than when I was in high school and gave my Mom the speech about how by getting me a car, it would be safer for me to get back and forth to school. *Yawn* come up with something good next time.

No that not really true, I never used my cell phone during school what's the point everyones right there in front of me. My cell phones never gone off in class, not once. You're allowed to bring your phone into school if you're on a sports team and you have a game that day.

   Anyway, parents have and issue with cell phone ban and thats what matters. This isn't my arguments its thousands of parents, teachers and SCHOOL OFFICIALS who feel the exact same way. If you think its safe for a 14 year old to get out of school at 8 o'clock at night and not have his/her phone to contact there parent then fine for you, but thousands of parents feel differently. I think it's also very silly for you to say "oh you just want to talk to your friends", give teenagers more credit than that.

I found this article on it

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/s … 0726c.html

Electra T wrote:
If you think its safe for a 14 year old to get out of school at 8 o'clock at night and not have his/her phone to contact there parent then fine for you, but thousands of parents feel differently. I think it's also very silly for you to say "oh you just want to talk to your friends", give teenagers more credit than that.

Wait, so NY does not have pay phones?

Envy wrote:

Wait, so NY does not have pay phones?

Working public pay phones are getting harder and harder to find.

Envy wrote:

Wait, so NY does not have pay phones?

In my school we have 3 pay phones, Ironically enough we can't use two of them because that's where they store the metal detectors.Fucking stupid. Pay phones in brooklyn..they have them on subway platforms but a lot of them don't work anymore because I'd say the majority of people have become dependent on their cell phones. That actually happend to me, my school is in coney island and i had to call my mum..1 out of the 3 pay phones i found actually worked.

Heres an article on payphones
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/ … se_her.php

Electra T wrote:
If you think its safe for a 14 year old to get out of school at 8 o'clock at night and not have his/her phone to contact there parent then fine for you, but thousands of parents feel differently. I think it's also very silly for you to say "oh you just want to talk to your friends", give teenagers more credit than that.

Millions of NYC kids did it in previous centuries...

Envy wrote:
Disappearing pay phones, fair enough.
How about other land lines? Businesses in the area surely have a phone a teen can use if they are in distress.

Ha! Are you kidding? You're lucky if they let you use the bathroom. I mean I see what you're saying, but I honestly thinking they should just buy cubbies or lockers. A lot of the courthouses in Brooklyn confiscated cell phones and picture id and you get it back when you're leave the building.

Lens N Light wrote:
About time! You should leave your phone in your locker, turned off during classtime. I wish I could convince people to do that in restaurants. My favorite has a dead zone. Not sure how they did it, but inside - no service.

First, if they created the dead zone, that's a federal offense.

Second, I prefer my son have his phone in school and if he misuses it, then confiscate it and call me. I am on the road during the day and at dismissal time, if I'm not going to be home, I need to divert him to someones' house. He is 11 and is legally not allowed to be home alone (or Childrens' Services can have him removed).