cellphones, should bloomberg ban the use of cell phone in school? Options

[anheuser]

free free to post here my answer: of course no!


bloomberg is creating sumting stupid. well he's trying to put metal detectors in midle and highschools. he's doing this so it can prevent use from bringing yur cellphones in school well isnt that a wrong thing to do like for example if there wuz an emergency wut would happen and if wanted to call yur parent what would u call them with so ... i just need a minute of yur time and just type in yes or no and u can and maybe type in sum feed bac about wut u think about it.. thxs for all your time all cb users!

[lalalaLANUH]

Lol My school sent out letters about this. They said it was to keep us "safe". Ironically enough, they didn't elaborate much on this point. How does this keep us safe is my question. If someone could give me a reasonable answer to that, then maybe I'd get over this whole thing.
On the other hand I hate how all the kids at my school are acting like their world has come to an end. Really they don't use their cells for emergencies. That's just their excuse to try and keep their cell phones in their pockets. I'm the one with the emergency phone because it takes me two hours to get home. They're only upset about this because they wont be able to text their friends in class.

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Lol My school sent out letters about this. They said it was to keep us "safe". Ironically enough, they didn't elaborate much on this point. How does this keep us safe is my question. If someone could give me a reasonable answer to that, then maybe I'd get over this whole thing.
On the other hand I hate how all the kids at my school are acting like their world has come to an end. Really they don't use their cells for emergencies. That's just their excuse to try and keep their cell phones in their pockets. I'm the one with the emergency phone because it takes me two hours to get home. They're only upset about this because they wont be able to text their friends in class.

if they don't use their phone for emergencies, then what is it for? like just talking/texting to people at random? sure, when i'm bored i text people across the hall from me or on a different floor, but i use it for emergencies too! i got a phone in the first place 'cause i have to attend extracurricular Saturday classes in Manhattan. and i live in Queens, so i have to take the train. like sometimes i get lost so i go out and call someone to pick me up. but sometimes, afterschool, i need my phone if i go out. and if the schools don't let us bring cellphones anymore, then i can't go out anymore 'cause i always have to call my parents. and i'm gonna go to York next year, which is in Jamaica [my friends have gotten mugged there.] and if i can't bring my phone, my parents might make me transfer to the United Nations International School [UNIS].
ugh. i hate it when the BOE does things like this.

I think this is more enforced on high schools though.

they've already used metal detectors in Francis Lewis. and confiscated a lot of cellphones.