OMG A TXT MESS (Kid's $1000 cell bill)

NY Post ^ | 3/30/05 | Marsha Kranes

[thefactor]

Wow.

[thefactor]

Thought you would enjoy this one.

[Jeff Gordon Fan]

that's crazy...i go through about 200 a month at college

[sarasota]

Dr. Phil demonstrated how students are using text messages to cheat on exams/assignments while in class.

[Glenn]

i go through about 200 a month at college

Why?

[RushCrush]

all those repeated votes to American Idol

[NautiNurse]

" text-messaging in both classes and she got F's in both...The kids are using their cellphones to contact other kids or to get answers from each other,"

Wrong answers, apparently.

[thefactor]

I graduated college in 1998. Never had a cell during college. Now that I have one I wonder how I ever survived without it, but this case is a little out of control. How could someone type that much?

[ChefKeith]

YARK!!!

Can you say grounded for life?

I'll bet somebody has a job here real soon.

[Ramstein75]

I'll bet there will be a lawsuit against the cell company providers soon...lookout Cingular, T-Mobile, etc.

[reagan_fanatic]

I don't suffer that kind of crap...my 14 y.o. daughter was given a Tracfone and an allowance of minutes every month - go over the minutes and you don't talk until the next month rolls around. Period.

[thefactor]

And voting for her favorite songs on MTV's TRL show.

[visualops]

That's what happens when you don't pay attention to what your kids are doing.
When we got another line for our daughter when she was in HS, I believe initially we may not have even allowed text messages.
Either way, hubby would check her phone every day, and call in checking on minutes etc.
She wasn't even allowed to have her phone on during school except at specific times.

[struggle]

Oh, wow. I used to teach at a university in Japan. The use of cell phones is 10X worse there.

[CFC__VRWC]

Ashley, a junior at Gloucester City HS, "no longer has a cellphone," said Taylor, who now knows why his daughter has been failing math and social studies.

Any bets on how long it took the ACLU to contact her about suing her father after they read this?

[thefactor]

Something tell me a paper route won't quite cover this one. Plus, if she has to get a job, how will she ever find time to study? Being a kid nowadays is so tough.

[mlbford2]

Wow, and I thought i was tricky writing in reeeeeeaaallly small print on my calculator all the physics formulas during tests(not that it helped any).

[bigfootbob]

I would have had a stroke. My oldest clicked on a link 8 years ago that routed our modem to some long distance site in Madagascar. She was only there 1 minute and the bill came to $55.00.

The phone company ate the charge, ONCE. She never did that again, I made her cut the grass weekly for a month to make amends. We have 3 acres of mowable lawn!

[Howlin]

LOL.

[TXBSAFH]

What is wrong with these parents. They need to do what my hunting buddy did, he got his daughters prepaid cells, he paid the first $50 then when they ran through that they had to pay or go without. It taught responciblity real fast.