Let me remind you. This is a “place” where people can vent and express themselves. No harm is meant to anyone. There are facts in some of these post that people have written. Bottom line, you have been so defensive , its really sounding like you are one of those kids.

If you cant handle the criticism then you may want to refrain from visiting this site. Also, you may want to “cut out” the slang. When people abuse things , they sometimes get taken away. Go figure.

No one in this world is perfect. We are all trying to do the best we can with what we have. And, I do have a life for your information. One that is very enjoyable and fulfilling. Merry Christmas Lovebug and have a Happy New Year!!!

Obviously someone has hit a sore spot with you. You must be one of the spoiled brats that I was speaking of previously. And, by observation, your English skills proove that you too must have been one of the cell phone abusers that were forced to give up your phone.

Grown-ups as you call us, we all have opinions. Its not facts, its only opinions. We are not dumb. Look in the dictionary (that is if you know what one of those are) and you will find the definition .

Quit your whining about us grown-ups and get on with your “lil kid” stuff, whatever that may be. We will continue to voice our opinions. Get over it!!!

There is a fab little invention called ‘medic bracelets’ that your parents should have already provided you with if your health is that unstable.

Just make sure you don’t misspell the illness and phone number, Shakespeare.

I’ve worked in the school systems, at the times our schools were implementing similar policies, and never once did I see a child in such danger as to be saved by a cell phone. If you worry about something happening to them while they are at school, tell them you love them and teach them common sense before you drop them off. If someone were to burst in your school, God forbid, to terrorize your children, it would happen whether they had a cellphone or not. As far as ‘I can’t get messages to my children,’ even if they HAD cell phones, parents above all should respect their children’s education enough not to contact them on it. It should be an emergency case only. Ya’ll live in Monticello, so get over it. The school is less than ten minutes from just about anywhere in town. If you ‘can’t get away to give my child an urgent message and can’t reach the school,’ I’m sure you know a helpful neighbor that would be more than happy to drive half a mile and deliver the message in person.

From cells in schools, I did see alot of texting, cheating, and rude parents calling and texting their children throughout the day. I did see more than one altercation because someone’s phone got stolen. I’ve worked in the office when the lines of honest, rule-abiding teens pile in at the beginning of the day to turn their phones in, and chastise the secretaries about ‘not answering their phones’ as if anyone would care to. I’ve seen the office workers scrambling to answer phones, write absentees & help parents while at the same time feverishly popping post-it notes on kids’ phones to id them after school. It’s an undue stress.

I have heard songs such as ‘So I took the keys to her f***ing car, crashed that piece of sh*t and stepped away’ chiming from purses during tests. (That would be Bartender by Rehab…funny as crap but totally not appropriate for a 15 year old girl to have on her cell, whether she’s at school or not).

They cause more harm than good. Schools have existed for GENERATIONS without cellphones, and why are children more socialbly needed than adults these days? I can’t tell you HOW many of my besties aren’t allowed to have their cellphones at work. I say let them get used to disappointment now so maybe they won’t get fired for being a brat when they hear they need to put the phone away and do actual work from their bosses one day. How come your 16 yr old is more important than my best friend who has a 3yr old in preschool? Why can’t she answer HER phone during the day? Because she works at a doctor’s office. How offended would YOU be if your nurse was standing there talking to her kid the whole time she was taking your blood pressure? I can assure you a post would be left, griping about that on here or a call to her employer, at the least. Kids have enough excuses to disrespect and ignore teachers without adding electronic distracters to the mix.

What many people don’t realize is that it’s a safety issue more than anything. How fast would it take a crackhead to get to school if his little brother texted him and told him he was fighting with one of YOUR children? A simple text at 9 a.m. could easily reveal where to find your student in that school at 9:15. Sounds farfetched? So did Columbine, but it happened.

Most important to me, however, was the fact that schools have no electronic policies for a good reason these past few years (since September 11, 2001, actually). It has nothing to do with whether or not your child is brat and cheats on tests, or whether your daughter started her period and needs tampons delivered…if someone were ever stupid enough to bring a bomb into the classrooms with YOUR CHILDREN, the simplest electronic signal, especially from cell phones, could tragically end the chance of any kind of safe evacuation.
Let them wait until their breaks or go to the office if they need a phone, like adults are asked to do at their jobs everyday. Cell phones have been around for awhile now. If kids weren’t acting stupid and causing problems with them, they wouldn’t be having to enact policies. Whether YOUR child is an angel and would NEVER cheat or text about meeting guys after schook, many children will use the phones for that.

Why don’t you who are against it go stand in front of 20 teenagers and try to describe the female anatomy while someone’s phone is in the back of the room playing ‘I’m in luv with a stripper.’