Hammer of the Dads!If this were you're child, what would the punishment be?
She’d have to do some type work to payoff at ;east a portion of the bill. Enough to make it hurt.
Kid would have to HOLD the phone in her hand while it was hammered down.
Sounds like they did the right thing.
Make her pay the bill. Babysit, collect cans... whatever. May take a few years but it will be a lesson well learned.
This costs Verizon ZERO, nothing, but they will take advantage of this situation.
Cell phone companies are the scum of our planet.
She had her phone taken away from her after they got a phone bill for $500.
I don't blame the Dad for doing what he did.
At the same time, a little bit of research and planning on his part could've gotten the child unlimited texting for about $10.00.
True, that only solves the bill problem, not the grade problem. But after the first $200+ bill on my son's texting the first thing I did was get on the phone to Verizon. I was going to cut it off, but they explained the unlimited plan.
Hammer of the Dads!$4,756.25 for $10.00 worth of texting? Yikes! I’m sure glad I’m not impressed with that texting stuff.
Give her a big hug, tell her that they were ‘good people’
she was texting and schedule payments with the phone
company. Then write the payments off by double on my taxes
as ‘education expenses.
Then write a letter to the 0bama administration that
they should pay for student’s cell phone texting
calls when they are in school.
But, then I an 0bama supporter.
no cellphones for my kids unless they pay for them
If the child had been told not to do it and did it make them pay the bill. Then if they keep their grades up after paying the bill then look into a plan that is unlimited. There are many things in life that are only good in small quantities and at certain times. After that I would encourage the school to limit phone time to lunch time. Passing notes back in the day would get you an hour of detention after school and a letter to your parents. If it was that easy to catch note passing then there is a dereliction of duty by these educators not to crack down on this.
“The Christoffersens are asking school administrators at Johnson Junior High School to crack down on cellphone use during school.”
Oh is that it. Why not have the school also teach your kid how to get an abortion or perform sexual acts.
Perhaps it’s time for parents to figure out how STUPID it is to trust a teenager on a cell phone plan. They deserve it.
Doesn’t this amount to just about one text message every 2 minutes? And this is during school...I don’t even see how this is possible. And none of the adults around this girl noticed that she was texting ALL THE TIME? It must have been like the classroom in Clueless.
Yeah, smash the phone.
This texting crap goes on at the college level as well. I don’t know how many parents realize that little Johnny got a C because he wasn’t paying attention and was texting during class and not because the ‘prof is a jerk.’
No more cellphone until she can pay her own bill and right after she paid for that first bill too.Good thing I never had kids they would’ve hated me.
What the daughter doesn’t realize now is that four thousand dollar phone bill will be brought up at family gatherings and in front of every potential suitor for the rest of her life. Her dad is going to get his money’s worth out of that bill and smashed phone.
That is just a bit under a month of my pay...I would have to kill her. /sarc. To be honest, I would have to take it from her college fund and replace it when I could. She would also pay off what can be done.
Verizon can't be trusted on this issue. I've told them repeatedly to disable texting and internet on my account. After getting a couple of texts again, they claim that texting was disabled on one phone, but not the other. I told them again. We'll see how long before I get another text.
All unregulated monopolies (actual or functional).
Even if the phone runs out of minutes, it can still be used to dial 911 in a emergency.