Where we live, the text messaging and getting online is happening at school, via cell phones and iPods.
My kids are miffed because everyone else can “talk” to one another during class, and they can’t because we don’t let them take cell phones or iPods to school. My kids feel like they are the only ones — of course, they are not — who must listen to the “boring” teachers.
My son told me that because the school has wireless networking, kids can go online with their iPods, too. For some reason, that works especially well in the bathrooms.
LOL! My twin girls are miffed because they don't even have cell phones or IPods, but they've told me the same thing, their classmates spend their day with IPod in hand.
Heck, I've only had a cell phone for about a year. I don't understand these people walking around with their fingers frantically pressing the keypad or looking like an escaped Borg with a gizmo stuck in their ear and talking to thin air. Sure, some of it is business, but it somehow seems publicly rude, IMHO.
Why can't the school just tell the kids not to bring the techno-gear to class?
Is that so hard?