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fumsm (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:15 AM Original message |
Cell phone jamming in schools. |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. Bring back payphones in schools. |
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pnutbutr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:19 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. just go to the office and ask to use the phone |
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HelenWheels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 10:36 AM Response to Reply #3 |
62. I bet they do. |
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pstokely (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 05:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
45. Kids would just prank call them with their cell phones |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:19 AM Response to Original message |
2. I watched a 4th grader text her way through an assembly |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
4. When *I* went to school, we never had this stuff you call paper. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Yeah ... because cell phones are the same as educational materials. Uh-huh. |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
28. What did a bit of sarcasm have to do with PAYING for school supplies? |
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SteelPenguin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 08:49 AM Response to Reply #28 |
48. agree and disagree |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 10:31 AM Response to Reply #48 |
59. I agree completely. |
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xultar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
5. Columbine. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Exactly. Cell phone bills provide usage details |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:55 PM Response to Reply #5 |
44. Parents are being lazy and would rather |
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geek_sabre (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 05:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
46. We have "intruder/gunmen" drills along with fire drills at my school |
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michreject (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 09:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
52. Can't happen again |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 09:16 AM Response to Reply #5 |
55. I lean this way, too. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
6. The most important thing you can learn in school is to focus. Jam the phones. nt |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
32. Not jamming actually teaches students to focus... |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. Agreed... |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. A friend was telling me about all of the "sexting" going on at Junior High school |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:38 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Makes me regret that we didn't have them when I was a teen. :D |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
10. They're entitled little shits just like their kids and they're all |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
11. I'm NOT ok with jamming |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Secret Service does it all the time. SOP. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:05 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. They are at war |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Agreed 100%. Think Columbine..or any other school shooting... |
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iamthebandfanman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
13. i still cant figure out why they are tolerated at all |
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jhrobbins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. This is the reasonable solution - it doesn't have to be an all or nothing scenario |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:17 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. Schools these days are incapable of reasonable solutions (nt) |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
15. School is wrong. |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
16. A lot of people have no common sense with cell phones. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #16 |
27. The "ban everything!" crowd isn't exactly winning the common sense race either (nt) |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. You were in high school for 12 years? |
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SteelPenguin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 08:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
49. Absolutely Agree |
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dubeskin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
20. You never know |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
21. why should all cell phones at a school be jammed? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:41 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Read my earlier post in this thread |
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fumsm (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. How many kids lives are cell phones screwing up? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:16 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. I think saving a life is more important |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:21 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. So would everyone going around encased like bubble boy |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:25 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. Straw men are awesome (nt) |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:29 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Thanks! |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. That's not realistic either |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:15 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Because heavy-handed zero tolerance policies are easy and feel good |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:17 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Bingo |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:21 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Get it, got got by it, etc (nt) |
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fumsm (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:18 PM Response to Reply #25 |
31. Zero tolerance is a sham, invented by lazy repukes. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Depressingly popular around here, too |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:38 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. ZT is just not very progressive |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:51 PM Response to Reply #39 |
43. As I said, the problem is that it's *easy* |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
41. Well, if a Columbine event ever happens, you'd be safer with the cell phone than the gun |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 09:09 AM Response to Reply #41 |
53. Better yet ...a cell phone gun. |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
42. For one thing, if the school jams phones |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
47. Faraday cages |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
50. Slaves to marketing concerned about their "freedoms" being curtailed |
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grace0418 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
51. Well, I think jamming the cell phones could be a problem in case of emergency. |
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Dr.Phool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
54. Could we jam them in cars next? |
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demmiblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 09:45 AM Response to Original message |
56. I like the idea of cell phones at school. |
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Strong Atheist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
57. They have to be turned off and put in lockers at the begining of the day at our school, |
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bobbert (548 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
58. They jam cell phones where I work |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
60. i wont get my kids cell phones. the kids dont need them and have |
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HelenWheels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-13-09 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
61. Kosher Phones are the answer |
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