Cell phone School policy

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: vshah
my school didn't give a crap, didn't have strict rules, and guess what, we all still did really well. sent 30 kids to ivys my year out of 400. 20 kids didn't go to college (army etc.)

That's a big school... Did you go to a private school or public?

Our school wasn't strict, but we were also going to a extremely poor school... No one went to an ivy league college.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Originally posted by: vshah
my school didn't give a crap, didn't have strict rules, and guess what, we all still did really well. sent 30 kids to ivys my year out of 400. 20 kids didn't go to college (army etc.)

That's a big school... Did you go to a private school or public?

Our school wasn't strict, but we were also going to a extremely poor school... No one went to an ivy league college.

I went to a public HS with a graduating class of 480. Something like 2000 people in my HS now - Freshman-> Senior (due to continual population increases).

95+% of people in my class went on to 4 year schools and I'd say just looking back, at least 50+ went to top 25 schools (including Ivys).

As far as the cell phone policy - most teachers didn't care. If you got caught, they might keep it till the end of the day.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555

Originally posted by: vshah
my school didn't give a crap, didn't have strict rules, and guess what, we all still did really well. sent 30 kids to ivys my year out of 400. 20 kids didn't go to college (army etc.)

That's a big school... Did you go to a private school or public?

Our school wasn't strict, but we were also going to a extremely poor school... No one went to an ivy league college.

I went to a public HS with a graduating class of 480. Something like 2000 people in my HS now - Freshman-> Senior (due to continual population increases).

95+% of people in my class went on to 4 year schools and I'd say just looking back, at least 50+ went to top 25 schools (including Ivys).

As far as the cell phone policy - most teachers didn't care. If you got caught, they might keep it till the end of the day.

Very different from us then. We all lived in a poor county(With a total population of 100,000) so a lot of people would go to the community college that was 20 miles away or moved or went to the state university. (Very few went to out of state ones, and even then.. not ivy) The "big city" only had like 20,000-25,000 people in it, but it had everything you needed. (Excluding electronic stores, like Best Buy or Circuit City, etc) Our graduating class only had like 90 people.

It also wasn't really something that people were hard-pressed to be planning for, lol.

 

[amicold]

Originally posted by: jaha2000

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: Brainonska511
Why not just enable the security lock feature?

An even better idea: don't use your phone in class.

Stop with your reasonable ideas and let the poor little addict enjoy his crack habit.


And stop pissing away money on texts. It's pathetic how much money they cost, and just as much so that people are willing to pay high rates for strings of trite little messages.

Does anyone know the bitrate of an cellphone voice call?
I'd be willing to bet that the per-byte cost to the consumer of a text message is at least an order of magnitude higher than that for a voice call.

IF you pay for texts (free on my plan), they cost 4 times as much per byte as it costs to get data from the Hubble Space Telescope. But who pays for texts? That's dumb, unless you send like 3 a month.

But seriously, OP, stop using your phone in class.

And, as a person under the age of 18, you have almost no rights, and a very small right to privacy compared to adults. Your only hope is to have your parents come in and complain. Your voice means nothing, and carries no legal wait.

I'm not saying this to be a douche, I hated that powerless feeling too.

Maybe the moron should read the last part of this post. If they want to take it and give it back to you at the end of the year they could do that if the put it in the student handbook. I just dont understand why you even need a phone while in HS. Like was said above your friends are all around. Do you really need to have a phone durring class?

If i was a teacher i would sit down the first day of class, set the 1 pound sledge on the desk and say this. "If i see you on a phone durring class your phone is going to meet my hammer". To me, talking on the phone like that durring school is one of the most disrespectful things that a student could do. My advice to the OP, grow up...

He wasn't talking on it, old man.