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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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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsanthonyFeb 19th 2009 8:20PM
the cop wasn't called. I know who she is we have a cop in our building at all times and he was just called to the room
AnniFeb 20th 2009 2:36AM
I like all the internet tough guy approaches here you guys are taking at each other, especially the lovely person who assumed a poster was a student and called the supposed kid out for being dumb.
I'd just have thrown the kid out. For all of you who're defending it because kids are crazy, you're wrong. Every day, I see amazing examples of the type of motivated, intelligent, passionate individuals the nation's children are. Though, I can certainly understand why children don't respond positively to adults who assume the worst in their character and set them up to fail by placing blanket statements about the lack of their worth.
I would've just thrown the kid out, sent her to the principal and called Mom/Dad. The cops aren't necessary. What happened to teachers taking the damn phone away until Mom/Dad picked it up?
MichaelFeb 21st 2009 9:40PM
The problem isn't the students. It's the school system. Okay, it /is/ the students. But bear with me for a moment.
Our legal system (and overprotective parents who are usually way too generous with what they allow their children to do) has stripped teachers of their power. The moment a teacher touches a student, they are a criminal and in almost all cases, also now unemployed.
Here's how this situation should have gone:
"Jane S., get off your phone."
"I don't have a phone."
[Teacher walks over to Jane S.'s desk.]
"Do you want to fail my glass?"
"I don't care."
"Excellent. Get off your phone."
"I don't have a phone."
[Teacher picks up student's desk and throws it to the ground.]
"Where's your phone?"
"I don't have a phone."
[Teacher smacks student.]
"WHERE IS YOUR PHONE?" [Teacher smacks student.]
[Student crys.] "Here."
"Thank you."
[Teacher walks back to desk and erases all of the student's grades, replacing them with zeroes.]
"Jane S., you now have a zero in my class, and I've updated Edline* and left both of your parents a message regarding your updated grade."
Now /that/ is a badass teacher.
* Edline is a software package that enables teachers to upload grades -- and other things (absences, homework, and so on) -- to a website for the students and their parents to access elsewhere.
...
Alternatively:
"Jane S., get off your phone."
"I don't have a phone."
"Jane S., get off your phone."
"I don't have a phone!"
[Teacher walks over to student's desk.]
"Do you want to fail my glass?"
"I don't care."
"Excellent. Get off your phone."
"I don't have a phone."
[Teacher walks back to his desk, and erases all of the student's grades in the gradebook and replaces them with zeros.]
"Jane S., you now have a zero in my class, and I've updated Edline* and left both of your parents a message regarding your updated grade."
ShawnFeb 28th 2009 6:10AM
Hey Gary just out of curiosity where is this crack you speak of. Maybe its you who needs the reading comprehension, I read the article and the links no where in either of these does it say crack it says in the buttocks area, try again please. try to follow what you preach first before asking others and then trying to "RANT" about it
GaryMar 3rd 2009 10:52AM
Pardon me but I made an "assumption" given the information contained in the police report. They reported it was under the pants in the buttock area. They had to have a matron/ female officer do the search and the phone was evidently NOT immediately apparent. I cannot imagine if the phone was just placed under the fabric of the pants it would not make an obvious outline just by making the girl stand up and turn around given the "panty line syndrom" so many suffer from. Cell phones tend to be a bit bulkier than the hem of most women's panties. There are NOT that many hiding places "under the pants in the buttocks area" that something can be placed out of sight.......HENCE my assumption. I tend to think...... not just run my mouth like so many of the "kids" here.......
kerry wenrichMar 5th 2009 3:24PM
the child did the crime so she had to do the time it's as simple as that
JamesMar 21st 2009 4:41PM
It is illegal to confiscate anything if it doesn't pose a danger. Neither teachers nor police can do it unless they're arresting you, and they have to return it at bail. Remember back in the 90s when they'd take your phone and NEVER return it per school rules? Very illegal. Schools believe they're above the Constitution of the state and country.
If something of my kid's was taken, I'd prove a point by taking them to court and spending the money. I wouldn't care.
ainosMar 24th 2009 4:05PM
this article is so retarted and it serves no purpose for wasting space on this website.
ROBINApr 3rd 2009 1:23AM
KUDOS TO THE TEACHER AND SCHOOL. And to make sure the student and her "parent(s)" understood that no cell phones in the classroom meant exactly that. The only way she would be able to come back to class was with a parent spending each and everyday sitting beside her, through all her classes, lets say for at least two weeks. Maybe then if parents had to come to school and miss out on time at their jobs because of their lousy parenting at home ( or lack of it), they would do a better job explaining to their kids, that when your told you cannot do something, you don't do it, especially at school. Its not the teahers fault, do your job parents, be parents, not friends. Face it parents, you know who you are and your kids don't respect you anymore than they do their teachers. I think its high time schools put the parents of disruptive kids front and center, and have them either pull their brats out, or sit in class and babysit their own kids, so the teacher is able to get on to the business of teaching those that want to learn. Grow up parents, no one "needs" a cell phone in class. Did your kids tell you that one? LOL. Emergency calls are received by the office, and any other calls can wait till the school day is over. And no I'm not a teacher, just a parent and grandparent who wants schools to be able to get back to the job of educating, period. Stay home and teach your bratty kids yourself for six weeks, see how that works out for you. Maybe then you'll understand that your sending them to school to learn, not to an 8hr babysitter.
webodancer10Apr 29th 2009 1:51PM
In your butt really? why would you hide it there? was it really that big of a deal to get caught? but ok....
SamanthaSep 6th 2009 6:37PM
The teacher should have just told them to go to the office, and confiscate their phone.
There was no need to get the police involved. I'm 13, and don't have a phone, but our principle says either: Don't bring it, keep it in your locker, or turn it off. The teachers usually just tell them to stop texting. But if I had a phone, and I really do want one
,I would keep it off, and in my locker. I wouldn't carry it with me during the day.
If i carried it with me, I would have it off, so I don't get into trouble. But really, no need to arrest the kid. Imagine what the parents said. If she really wanted to hide it, she should have put it in her bra or something. 1: Her shirt was too short. 2: You can notice it if the
phone was hidden in her pants.