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I recently found out that young people these days are allowed to use their cellphones in their schools.
Obviously, I was appalled. What kind of degenerate teacher allows that sort of thing? Is there no such thing as discipline anymore?
I ask you, would you want YOUR child using a phone during class?

In school or during class?

You asked two different questions.

Why are you appalled?

No phone should be visible in the school.

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:No phone should be visible in the school.

Why not? I can understand during a class but otherwise, why not?

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:No phone should be visible in the school.

Why?

School is for school, not Snapchat.

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:School is for school, not Snapchat.

Why?

New haven america wrote:

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:School is for school, not Snapchat.

Why?

You want perverts in school operating through kids' phones?

During class, no.

Outside class during free time such as lunch, yes.

It's illegal to upload unauthorized footage of minors without their parents' consent, allowing students to use their phones in school jeopardizes the privacy of thousands of individuals.

In class, no. In school at large, yes.

Although parents could just do a blanket ban on an individual child's phone use too.

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:It's illegal to upload unauthorized footage of minors without their parents' consent, allowing students to use their phones in school jeopardizes the privacy of thousands of individuals.

That's nice.

That is literally why students aren't allowed to use their phones in school, though. It's too unsupervised.

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:That is literally why students aren't allowed to use their phones in school, though. It's too unsupervised.

But they are allowed to use phones in schools.

Given the prevalence of school shootings? Yeah. I'm pretty okay with letting the kids have phones. Parents as a whole may not care enough to force something to be done about the gun mess, but at least the kids can tell their parents they love them anyway before they go.

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:It's illegal to upload unauthorized footage of minors without their parents' consent, allowing students to use their phones in school jeopardizes the privacy of thousands of individuals.

You going to arrest kids for taking pictures of each other?

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:That is literally why students aren't allowed to use their phones in school, though. It's too unsupervised.

I call bullshit.

I'm appalled any parent would want to send their kid to a school where they would basically have their whole identity exposed to the Internet. And students absolutely should be disciplined for using unauthorized electronic devices in school.

Albrenia wrote:In class, no. In school at large, yes.

Although parents could just do a blanket ban on an individual child's phone use too.

It is legal to photograph or videotape anything and anyone on any public property, within reasonable community standards. As I am allowed to take photos in a public park that may include children and upload that to my facebook account, I would think that students taking pictures of other students would fall under the same guideline, at least in public schools.

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:I'm appalled any parent would want to send their kid to a school where they would basically have their whole identity exposed to the Internet. And students absolutely should be disciplined for using unauthorized electronic devices in school.

But they're not unauthorized.

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:I'm appalled any parent would want to send their kid to a school where they would basically have their whole identity exposed to the Internet. And students absolutely should be disciplined for using unauthorized electronic devices in school.

Are you like 80 or something?

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:I'm appalled any parent would want to send their kid to a school where they would basically have their whole identity exposed to the Internet. And students absolutely should be disciplined for using unauthorized electronic devices in school.

Where do you think these kids got their phones from, the Phone Fairy dropped them out of the sky?

Neutraligon wrote:

Albrenia wrote:In class, no. In school at large, yes.

Although parents could just do a blanket ban on an individual child's phone use too.

It is legal to photograph or videotape anything and anyone on any public property, within reasonable community standards. As I am allowed to take photos in a public park that may include children and upload that to my facebook account, I would think that students taking pictures of other students would fall under the same guideline, at least in public schools.

Yup.

I mostly mean if a parent says 'no phone for you, kid' then that's that.

Mobile Phones aren't a human right or anything.

Albrenia wrote:

Neutraligon wrote:It is legal to photograph or videotape anything and anyone on any public property, within reasonable community standards. As I am allowed to take photos in a public park that may include children and upload that to my facebook account, I would think that students taking pictures of other students would fall under the same guideline, at least in public schools.

Yup.

I mostly mean if a parent says 'no phone for you, kid' then that's that.

Mobile Phones aren't a human right or anything.

Sorry for some reason I responded to the wrong person. I meant to reply to OP.