[NYCynic]

I don’t support the cell phone ban but I understand why it’s in place.

Do you think the 12year old kid that pulls a knife on you is going to listen when you tell him to stop texting his weed connection during class?

[Uncle Ike]

My GAWD!!!

I must be dead —

I mean, how did I *ever* manage to survive my 20-umpteen years of schooling - and even more-umpteen years of living, up until this very minute - without owning a cell phone...

Being *out* of touch occasionally teaches values like self-sufficiency and independent thought....

[95 Bravo]

My first question is: do the teachers & administrators get to keep THEIR bags & cellphones? If so, why?
The usual Lefty rot- rule by decree, with no thought to actual consequences.
Wouldn’t want the slaves to have too much freedom, after all.......

[Tax-chick]

Denene Reppa, mother of one of the Cedar Lake, Indiana students who now must run to their lockers in between each class to get the needed book instead of being able to carry several in a book bag, said, “Those types of organizational skills will transfer when she goes to college. Very important … She can keep her other things in there as well that kind of relate to her being a female."

Denene, if your daughter is as garbled as you are, I suggest you spend the college-tuition savings on a cruise.

Good article, in some ways, but the real surrender of authority occured when parents turned child-rearing over the the state. All the rest is just details.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

They banned guns. What chance has a poor wee cell phone got?

There's too many people to be thinking and making decisions about every individual situation. Especially when the thinkers and deciders would be school authorities.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I think that the *newer* reasons for the cell phone ban has more to do with students cheating during tests. Students can now text questions and answers to others; they can even photograph them to others waiting to take a test.

Even the private schools in our area have joined in on the ban.

[Calm_Cool_and_Elected]

ping for later

[BubbaBasher]

I question the conclusion. It’s not the death of authority. It’s the death of responsibility. In all of the cited cases the authority isn’t gone it’s simply been pushed higher up the food chain. The students aren’t taught responsibility nor are they held responsible for their actions and the teachers responibility has been taken away.

[uglybiker]

Why are cell phones somehow beyond the sphere of influence when it comes to teaching our kids restraint, responsibility and self-control?

We don't have the time or resources to teach such antiquated ideas.

We're too busy teaching them about Che Guevera, birth control, global warming and of course, self-esteeeeeem! < /barf>