Posted on 08/03/2004 2:12:51 PM PDT by KMC1
PALM BEACH - In Palm Beach County Florida, public school campuses are about to pass a "ban" on camera phones on school property. Students found with the camera phones could be suspended from extraciurricular activities, face an in-school suspension or other in-school intervention program.
"They're causing a lot of problems," said board member Mark Hansen, "We really need to take action to make sure these are prohibited."
Superintendent Art Johnson agrees.
"The issue is communication - I could literally be taking a test, take apicture of it and send it to someone and someone could text me back the information."
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when i first heard about these camera phones all i could think of was "this is just going to be used to take photos of people who DON'T want thier pics taken"
they should ban pencils too, then there would be no excuses for dropping them......
they should ban students and teachers and adminstraters, then american educational system will finally work
At least they are ahead of the new cheating tech.
When I was a kid I was allowed to use my calculator (with 4K of memory and text) in all my classes. Worked great for all the memorize and regurgitate classes.
Guess this would be contraband.
Even if the students had test info, they wouldn't use it, would they? Honor would demand failing the test rather than using test answers obtained in a dishonest manner.
So what do you think was the result? Kids caught setting up drug deals, using camera phones to cheat on tests, using hands free equipment (and also wristwatch style walkie-talkies) to cheat, etc. And of course, as soon as the parent gets called in to pick up the confiscated phone and be informed of the little cheater's suspension, the parent finds some way to blame the school for "entrapping" the child into cheating (I'm not making this up!).
Kids don't need cell phones in school. Period. Any emergency can be relayed to that child with lightning speed (each classroom in my school has a phone hooked into the school phone system, though not to the outside during school hours, and I've had students called down to the office by that phone all the time), through the proper channels. Children are not adults. That's why they are in school in the first place...
Didn't your English teacher become a little suspicious?
Didn't your English teacher get suspicious when you used a calculator to take the test?
They have really gone overboard when they ban saxamaphones from music class.
Obviously your opinion on education is one to take very seriously...
The YMCA's in my area have already banned them - locker rooms, you know.
Nope. Not a clue. Did'nt even notice the little keyboard on it. (this was when that was unheard of)
But I had asked permission, so I did'nt even regard it as cheating.
In all honesty it was most usefull in History, English and Theology. (did a four year stretch with the Jesuits) Was'nt much use in Calculus, you actually had to understand that stuff.
See my post #8. BTW, what do you do for a living (just so I can get all the stereotypes about it ready for my responses to you for your "look up from their desks" crap)?
Amen! When did kids having a cell phone in class become a "right" anyway.
No cell phones in schools. Period.
Every college class I have been in lately the proff's ask that all cell phones be turned off during class. When people forget it pisses everybody off and the person is generally shamed into turning it off, and packing it away. Of course this doesn't work all the time, but it is required to have them packed away for all tests. This is in college, and yet these little teenie boppers get to have them on all day? Rediculous.
No cell phones in schools. Period.
Jiminey, just because they were invented 83 years after you were born and have scary technology in them. Mobile phones enable parents to stay in touch with kids if they visit friends after school. If anything untoward is happening in the school, parents are not dependent on the school to inform them. And camera phones can be used to record and report inappropriate acts by school employees.
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