The facebook and text messaging is happening AFTER School at home. What the kids do at home should be their business provided they do the HW and don’t harass a classmate.
This is not happening at the schools computer la.
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.
So what? The article says the school counselor is fielding problems associated with CHILDREN networking. There is no need for a kid to be on My Space and Facebook. They are great places to meet predators too. And this ban is voluntary.