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Arrested For Texting
Topic Started: 19 Feb 2009, 01:00 PM (143 Views)
Janny
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0217092samsung1.html

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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 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


I get that texting in class is bad, but still, why the fudge did they arrest her?? I'm beginning to wonder if the teacher is spiteful...
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Jeez, can't the school deal with disciplining a 14-year-old girl? They have to rely on the police? Unless the girl was very violent or something, the police and the courts have better things to do. I wonder what the school's punishment is for excessive spit-balling. Jail time?
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It's possible that the teacher had come to the end of his/her tether.

It must be pretty difficult at the best of times to get the attention of a class full of youngsters, especially maths! The teacher was likely insulted that her lesson was being ignored.

I have to admit that I get a bit fed up with mobile phones. They are everywhere. You can't get on a bus, plane or train without people texting, fiddling with their MP3s or chatting loudly to friends about nothing in particular and subjecting everyone else to it.

One woman on a bus to town recently made a succession of calls to several people and each time she was shouting out the same story about where she was on the journey, what time she got up, when she will arrive at her destination, what she had for breakfast...I mean seriously, it was worse than Japanese water torture :lol:

The trouble is, people go into a trance when they are using their phones. The exits were all blocked in a recent theatre trip due to everyone switching their phones back on and texting everyone about the show. They didn't even wait until they were in their cars, it's quite sad and desperate - they were literally walking in front of people obliviously and causing gridlock. Totally unnecessary.
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Does anyone remember the good old days before mobile phones? I hate them, especially when they're used in the library like today. There was even some guy walking behind me in the park a few weeks back who was shouting down his phone at someone. It made me jump and I honestly thought he was shouting a me for a moment. Ban the infuriating pieces of plastic!
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Don't hold back, Tel, tell us what you really feel ;)

I have to agree. I never even take my mobile out of the house!! The worse thig is when you are in Tesco and you'll get some sheila shouting into her phone 'I'm near the sprouts, where are you?' Purleasee! How on earth did everyone ever manage to stay grouped before the mobile phone invention?!! :ha:
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I think that the Authorities have made an example of this girl and hit the Problem by nipping it in the bud to prevent a spread of this happening through-out the concerned school as the message must be driven into them that Mobile Phones are not allowed in schools during lessons they are there to learn and be educated at school.


A few years ago some pupils were using Mobile Phones to Text Answers to each other during school Exams is that learning you know its not thatis the main reason they are a banned item.



But Mobile Phones have gone a long way since they were invented in a back GARDEN SHED IN FINLAND.



And the Technology for the future is that all sorts of new things are to be Marketed with the Mobile Phone even to the extent of replaceing the current Chip and PIn, as you know you can now incorporate them to be active on your Pc take pics download them there is no stopping the wheeel from turning now,


But regard less as to whether you love them or love to hate them they are here to stay.


But away from Schools now the children having them is a common factor now in all industrilized countries there is a large population of children that have them but that then comes into a different senario.




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I think they should be banned on school property.....the kids are there to learn not to chat with their chums.....

should be banned while driving too........so many close calls and fender benders because of them.......I only use mine when I'm on vacation.....have it turned off most other times.
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Plus they are using phones to surf the net too. Obviously a lot of youngsters respect school rules and only use phones in their breaks but should we be concerned that this will have an effect on their social development?

Everyone seems to be "plugged in" to one device or another these days, living increasingly in a virtual world. Not that I'm against the Internet per se. Without it I'd be a complete recluse with no friends :ha: :ha: :ha:
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simple......put a mobile phone jammer in every classroom and also in Prisons......that'll stop the burggers!
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that would work but the kids have to learn how to be responsible for themselves too....learn to obey certain rules. We're raising an entire generation of grabbers and whiners.....they want always more and are never satisfied with what they have, have no respect for themselves, their things or anothers property either.......when they hit the real world it will come as a big shock.
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