Teen Arrested for Texting in Class, Hides Cell Phone in Butt
While it might have been a tad on the excessive side to call the police on a 14-year-old girl for texting during class, the teen in question certainly didn't help anything by trying to hide her phone away in her butt.
In a perfect example of how your tax dollars are spent (read: wasted), and how freakin' dumb kids can be, a Wisconsin teen was arrested for disorderly conduct after sending text messages during class and ignoring her teacher's requests to put the phone away. The teacher called the cops, who escorted the student to the principal's office. There, after the student repeatedly denied having a cell phone, a second officer was called to search her person.
A female officer eventually found the phone stashed in the girl's "buttocks area." Good one, kid.
The girl was taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct for disrupting class, ignoring her teacher, and lying to police. The charge carried a bail of $298, and the girl's phone was confiscated.
We just can't believe that she expected police to buy the story of a 14-year-old girl not carrying a cell phone. [From: The Smoking Gun via Textually.org]
Teen Texting Craziness
Syracuse University professor Laurence Thomas made news last year for walking out of the classroom whenever his students disobeyed his "no texting in class" rule. Wouldn't the kind of student who would text in class be happy to have class canceled?
In January, 13-year-old Californian Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 text messages from her cell phone. Fortunately for her daddy, he had her on an unlimited text plan.
Two high school cheerleaders in Seattle were suspended from school in December when school officials found out that they had taken nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and, mistakenly or not, wound up with them circulating through the football locker room. The girls' parents have filed suit against the school. You'd think they would just let the embarassment die quietly.
In December, while on a class trip (according to an Internet rumor anyway), the above message appeared on 18-year-old Elizabeth Frisinger's phone after mistakenly texting her dad, back home in Cleveland, that she'd just lost her virginity. Whoops!
Outdoing Reina Hardesty, 15-year-old Ohioan Paige Hornev averages 15,000 text messages a month. That comes out to the impressive, or pitiful, average of 500 text messages a day.
Thinking about Emily Jenning's texting abilities just makes our thumbs hurt. The Vancouver, British Columbia teen pumped out an absurd 41,600 text messages in the course of a single month -- we did some quick calculations and that works out to about one text every minute.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Annette said 7:21PM on 2-18-2009
Freaking fascist for the teacher to call the police. She obviously does not have control of her classroom. Kids text. I wouldn't want it in my classroom, either, but I wouldn't have escalated the incident to involve the police. This teacher will never regain the respect of her students. Fear? Yes. Respect? No.
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betty said 7:32PM on 2-18-2009
Hidden in the butt?? no... that was a gross exageration for a sensational headline! It was stuck in the back of her jeans... right at the waistline... I've seen people tuck all kinds of stuff right in at the waistline...the band sort of helps hold things....
Why call the police because the kid texts? Just send her to the principals office... write her up..give a demerit..if that is used.... Tell her to stop..(which she obviously did) then shut up...I am beginning to think teachers just don' t know how to handle situations well... and that this escalated way beyond what was necessary...
now days... the zero tolerance has gotten a bit rediculas.... I can remember back around 92.... sub teaching..(babysitting) a Art Class, in Wright Co. MO.. high school.. one of hte damn kids actually chopped a hunk of wood off the table, heaved it across the room, striking me right at the temple...cutting my head... think anything was done?? hell no...that little bitch got by with is...
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sidewinder12s said 7:53PM on 2-18-2009
Ya, it has gotten bad. Although most teachers i know would just tell the student to get out of there class.
One rule that make me mad with my school with ZT is that if your in a fight, you cant defend yourself. like if someone just came up to you and started to hit you you just have to stand there and take it, if you fight back you go to the cops with them.
Damn, at my school if someone did that to the sub they would get suspended right there and then for like a week or too. and it would go to the cops for assault.
Gary said 11:22AM on 2-19-2009
Reading comprehension classes might be in order for you Betty,
The article clearly says it was stashed in the CRACK of her butt....... must be quite a butt!
Kids should NOT be allowed to have/use cellphone in a classroom setting PERIOD. Sounds like this was NOT the first time this confrontation happened with this student. She was insubordinate, disruptive, disrespectful to the teacher and other students, lied....need I say more?
With the classroom climate these days and the FACT any time a teacher attempts disipline they are "called on the carpet" for it at the very least, I don't blame the teacher for involving the authorities. The teachers are simply "CYA" ( covering their a$$es) when they call in backup like this. It sounds as if this student had a history and just how many time was the teacher suppose to "warn" this PUNK?
betty said 5:49PM on 2-19-2009
well Gary... I wouldn't know IF or how many times the student was warned... the article did not say...
as for if it were "crack" or "butt" no problem in comprehension...(Since you are SO picky) the headline said "BUTT" not crack.... obviously even the writer was not able to "get it staight"!
perhaps you need a good purgative to loosen up the attitude some! lol
Gary said 11:02AM on 2-25-2009
Well Betty,
Maybe you should try to get your information from the "article" instead of the "title". Try reading the full police report posted in teh article supplied by the link in the article..... Smoking Gun was the link provided.... might open up your narrow little mind......but I doubt it would actually, being the realist that I am.
As for ME? being pricky.......need to take a closer look at the snotty crap you write....... but I'd expect no less from the children of today Arrogant Ignorant, and disrespectful.
betty said 7:21PM on 2-25-2009
Garty perhaps you should have looked at the headline
betty said 7:20PM on 2-25-2009
gosh gary.... you are one rude arrogant bastard
oldchvytrx said 11:07AM on 2-26-2009
Rude and arrogant because I read the entire article along with the supplied supplimental information before I comment?
Rude and arrogant because I expect others to educate themselves BEFORE commenting?
Or is it just YOU and the few others that chose to be ignorant of the facts while making uniformed emotional rants rather than informed discussions of a topic who think this way?
Go ahead and "try" to put me down Betty..... and you too Lizzy. When someone who is nearly proud of the fact they read little more than the headline before making a fool of themselves I consider the source of the negative comments......... but usually not very long before laughing.
Like I said, read the Official Police report from the Wauwatosa, Wisconsin Police Dept by arresting Officer Jeffrey S. Griffin.
(now for the rude arrogant part) You can read can't you? LOL
ZeitgeistXIII said 7:51PM on 2-18-2009
I guess the real question would be, "was it on silent or vibrate?"
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sidewinder12s said 7:54PM on 2-18-2009
Haha
Michael said 8:18PM on 2-18-2009
Winner.
Jim said 5:31PM on 2-20-2009
Teachers today are worthless losers. I don't want to even get into this.
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Erica G said 8:46PM on 2-18-2009
So instead of detention and suspension, they are getting arrested now? And just for texting in class? I hope she disinfects that cellphone.
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Chad said 9:29AM on 2-19-2009
She got arrested because when the teacher told her to stop she refused and kept disrupting the class. The teacher told her to give up the phone and she refused. She hid the phone when they went to the principals office and denied she even had a phone. She refused to obey a police officers request to produce the phone. So no, she did not get arrested for texting.
JoNaSBrOtHeRsFaN said 9:54PM on 2-18-2009
wow, y would the teacher call the police for texting in class?? sum ppl do it ya kno.. the teacher obviously cant control his/her classroom well.
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Kelly said 10:54PM on 2-19-2009
Maybe because it is out of control. Good job teacher! I bet she will not have anymore problems with kids not paying attention because they are too busy textin!
Shelly said 11:36PM on 2-21-2009
When we discuss some of these crazy things that happen in our crazy world; especially dealing with "educational issues", we need to check word usage. ALL of us are guilty! I am worse now that ever. But, when using the word "your" instead of "you're" , think of how the word is actually used. Your is possessive, it means something is yours, while you're is meaning "you are" Then there is the ever missed "Their" and "There". The word " their" means people, while "there" means a place. "Too" means "also" and "Two" means a number. These are some of the most familiar words misused on comments. Thanks and God bless you all!
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Michael said 3:33PM on 2-22-2009
"Your" is a possessive determiner, in contrast to the possessive pronoun "yours". "Their" doesn't `mean people`, it's also a possessive determiner; similarly, "there" doesn't `mean a place`; it's not a pronoun at all, but an adverb.
Nothing you said is really wrong; I'm just clarifying...
Rnibe said 12:02AM on 2-24-2009
Thank you Michael. Sounds like you know your english language. I guess one of my terrible pet peeves is the misuse of words like: there and their. Also to and two. Etc...Clarify as much as you wish.
I know there is much more life than the use of words.