Posted on 3/30/2005, 5:23:34 PM by thefactor
Kids spend more time in high school sending text messages than reading textbooks, a New Jersey father discovered to his horror — after his 16-year-old daughter rang up a whopping $1,058 cellphone bill.
The bill covered a month and a half, was more than 200 pages long and listed more than 12,000 text messages, said John Taylor of Oaklyn.
His daughter Ashley had sent and received almost all those messages while she was in school, where students are supposed to stow their cellphones in their lockers before classes start.
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.
"She was busy text-messaging in both classes and she got F's in both — from not paying attention," he said.
Her cellphone bill showed messages sent "at 8:01, 8:02, 8:03, 8:04 — all the way through to 3 p.m. on some days," he said.
"Everyone in school" is doing it, he said.
"The kids are using their cellphones to contact other kids or to get answers from each other," he said.
"My daughter told me some kids use them when they have tests, they text-message answers."
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that's crazy...i go through about 200 a month at college
Dr. Phil demonstrated how students are using text messages to cheat on exams/assignments while in class.
Why?
all those repeated votes to American Idol
Wrong answers, apparently.
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?
YARK!!!
Can you say grounded for life?
I'll bet somebody has a job here real soon.
I'll bet there will be a lawsuit against the cell company providers soon...lookout Cingular, T-Mobile, etc.
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.
And voting for her favorite songs on MTV's TRL show.
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.
Oh, wow. I used to teach at a university in Japan. The use of cell phones is 10X worse there.
Any bets on how long it took the ACLU to contact her about suing her father after they read this?
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.
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).
LOL.
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.
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