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!

[Comptine]

I got to Stuyvesant with DrNick (except I don't know him) and I think this is a vast waste amount of time and money.

first of all, i agree with everyone that cellphones that are on are a complete distraction. students in my school like to play scratchy music on it and it really distracts you when you want quiet during a free period. however, cellphones aren't the ONLY distraction. Spirited Away made a good point that older generations made it fine through school without cellphones by using office phones. but, when you have to deal with the new york city metro system and the unpredictability of the city, i desperately need a cellphone. on several occasions, i had to abandon the subway completely and walk home. i need to at least let my parents know that.

and in case of an emergency, you cannot have all 3000+ students of my school waiting for the office phones.

also, these metal detectors will be random (at least at my school). the metal detectors they'll using are portable but enormous. what a waste of time and money to just set it up on random days.

i can understand for weapons and drugs. i fully support that. however, it's going to slow things down. and also, things like ipods and cellphones. they might be distractions but they mean no harm.

btw, doesn't nyc have like a huge defecit? where is the money coming from?

[Spirited Away]

[font=Arial][size=1]Spirited Away made a good point that older generations made it fine through school without cellphones by using office phones. but, when you have to deal with the new york city metro system and the unpredictability of the city, i desperately need a cellphone. on several occasions, i had to abandon the subway completely and walk home. i need to at least let my parents know that.

and in case of an emergency, you cannot have all 3000+ students of my school waiting for the office phones.

How often do these emergencies occur? Then again, if you're suggesting that to have cell phones in case of emergencies is "better safe than sorry", I whole-heartedly agree. However, how many kids out of that 3000 would only use their cell phones in case of emergencies? And aren't school officials trained for such emergencies? Don't they have cell phones?

Per your problems with the subway... don't they have public phones? If you'd really need to call home on the occasions that you have to walk home, wouldn't public phones work just fine? I was in Manhattan last summer and I recall seeing phones in the stations.

Sorry to be so staunch about this, but I'm one of those kids who rode the bus all four years of high school, who stayed for the late bus often enough, and who sometimes miss the late bus and had to call home with the office phone. Of course, I do not mean to make light of your situation because everyone knows NYC is that much more complicated than Houston (my town), but I feel that whatever the case, cell phones aren't necessities, they're conveniences that everyone assumes to be necessary.

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How often do these emergencies occur? Then again, if you're suggesting that to have cell phones in case of emergencies is "better safe than sorry", I whole-heartedly agree. However, how many kids out of that 3000 would only use their cell phones in case of emergencies? And aren't school officials trained for such emergencies? Don't they have cell phones?

Per your problems with the subway... don't they have public phones? If you'd really need to call home on the occasions that you have to walk home, wouldn't public phones work just fine? I was in Manhattan last summer and I recall seeing phones in the stations.

Sorry to be so staunch about this, but I'm one of those kids who rode the bus all four years of high school, who stayed for the late bus often enough, and who sometimes miss the late bus and had to call home with the office phone. Of course, I do not mean to make light of your situation because everyone knows NYC is that much more complicated than Houston (my town), but I feel that whatever the case, cell phones aren't necessities, they're conveniences that everyone assumes to be necessary.

i've seen many pay phones at train stops that were cut off the cord thingy.

and what about the people who go to school in Manhattan? say what if the UN or Chrysler Tower goes down. what would they do?
my sister used to go to school at Stuy and when the Twin Towers went down, they had to evacuate the building immediately, so she couldn't use a phone. [she didn't have a phone of her own at that time.] she ended up walking across the Queens Bridge with her friends, who also don't have cell phones, to Eastern Queens, which is about 10 miles or more miles away from the city.

sometimes in extreme emergencies, they are necessary. and i agree with you, those types of emergencies don't occur often, but after 9/11, parents seem think that cell phones are necessary. they're just scared that something like 9/11 might happen again.

[Spirited Away]

i've seen many pay phones at train stops that were cut off the cord thingy.

Right, and there are no working public phones in Manhattan subways. Why do I find that hard to believe?

and what about the people who go to school in Manhattan? say what if the UN or Chrysler Tower goes down. what would they do?

I've answered that already.

my sister used to go to school at Stuy and when the Twin Towers went down, they had to evacuate the building immediately, so she couldn't use a phone. [she didn't have a phone of her own at that time.] she ended up walking across the Queens Bridge with her friends, who also don't have cell phones, to Eastern Queens, which is about 10 miles or more miles away from the city.

... They couldn't find a phone? They couldn't went in a restaurant, or ANY business to plea for use of a phone? In that kind of emergency... and they couldn't, for the life of them, find a phone? Are you effing kidding me? I've been to NYC and I know people can be mean at times, but during that calamity and your sister couldn't get a sympathetic soul to lend a phone?

sometimes in extreme emergencies, they are necessary. and i agree with you, those types of emergencies don't occur often, but after 9/11, parents seem think that cell phones are necessary. they're just scared that something like 9/11 might happen again.

Yes, in extreme emergencies, they are a great convenience, and again, it is better to be safe than sorry. However, in those emergencies, do you have any idea how much more worst off it is for so many people to be calling around? On the day that Hurrican Rita was supposed to hit Houston, it took me TWO HOURS to get a clear line to call my family and friends because the network was busy. I tried my home phone as well as my cell phone. So in an emergency like 9-11, real emergency calls may not be able to get through because non-emergency users would be jamming the networks.