Skids and cell phones in school
3families blog got me to thinking about this. Cell phones have been a blessing and a curse.
If you find out that your skid is using their cell phone in school but mom and dad won't do anything about it, call the school. Tell them that you think Susie/Johnny may be using their cell phone in class. Maybe it'll encourage their teachers to walk around the classrooms, keeping an eye out to see if anyone is doing something unrelated to that class.
Unfriend and block them from facebook. Then you cannot see their notifications.
If you're paying for the phone, you can and should have it shut off during school hours. The carrier can do that for you.
- Anon2009's blog
- Log in or register to post comments
Comments
Lots of prayers to your mom
Lots of prayers to your mom and brother. I'm sorry your mom had to cancel her vacation. I'm also glad you are ok!
There was a Dateline episode about a girl who killed two people (a mother and her little boy) by texting and driving. I think she got 30 years in jail. It's infuriating. Can't these people pull over in a parking lot to do whatever it is they want to do on their cell phones?
... and in BD13's classes, we
... and in BD13's classes, we signed cell phone policies which allow them to use them in class for class things - if you don't have one, they buddy them up with a kid who does have one, and in some cases there are some iPads within the class they hand out so everyone has online access.
Their textbooks in math are online, their Spanish requires online access for some stuff, and I believe social studies they also required to do things online while in class.
As stated, BD13\SD13 do not have a dataplan, wifi internet only which the school provides and blocks access to things like twitter, fb, etc, however, if she is hot spotting off a friend, then she does have full access.
BD13 could hot spot off a friend too, but does not.
To me, its not up to the school to police the kids, they provided blocked wifi already. Parents need to step up. This one is up to DH and BM. If it was BD13, I guess she'd be buddying up to a friend in class for a week or so and\or using the community iPads because FB during school is a loss of privilege after the first warning.
"To me, its not up to the
"To me, its not up to the school to police the kids, they provided blocked wifi already."
I agree, but I'd want to know if a kid was doing unrelated things to the class in my classroom while they're supposed to be paying attention to me.