Canadian Principal Uses Chinese Device to Jam Students' Cell Phones

Public schools seem to be the ultimate testing ground for seeing what people can get away with. Why would a child be on the phone in class? The children who protested should be banned from the school. Let their parents educate them privately. Actually, I doubt any form of education will help them.

Who cares what the students think? Maybe if they were following the rules of the school, this wouldn't be neccessary. Spoiled brats that they are.

I wish most restaurants had the signal blockers installed.

Yes, punish the students using the phones in class, but what a bright idea to cut off communications from emergency services if something goes wrong in the school. Oh and if we're so intent on the students following school RULES which are only RULES maybe the principal needs to pay more attention to the LAWS.

I agree with Ree IF we are expecting our Students to follow the RULES which are only RULES then the Principal should follow the same thing ie THE LAW.

Cell phone jammers are great. They NEED to be legal. I bet these spoiled brats use the phones while crapping on toilet too. (eeww)

It's only a matter of time before regulated cell jammers are allowed in the US like they are in Japan. Schools, theatres and restaurants will have them. I cant wait!

I have a jammer. Use it while driving. No end of fun watching other drivers looking funny at their phones next to me at lights. I've gotten those anoying texters shut down too at movies.

What happens if you need to use your phone in an emergency and some evil idiot is jamming all nearby cell phones?

NICE GOING, PRINCIPAL STEVE GRAY. GOOD LUCK, SOME OF THE COMMENTS SEEM TO LEAD ME TO BELIEVE YOU ARE GOING TO NEED SOME.

GOOD FOR YOU, Principal Gray!

You understand that PART of the "education process" is to teach our young people "respect for others", and "respect for authority and their elders".

These kids were NOT learning those lessons voluntariy - so you did EXACTLY the right thing by taking their ability to use their cell phones away from them!

I agree that sometimes you have to take it into your own hands when it comes to proper and improper cellphone usage. Students should be focused on studying not gossiping/chatting/texting on their phones.

The jammer only takes out cellphones not landlines, so 'just in case of emergency' excuse is a little weak.

I would personally love to know where he bought the jammer so I can have it installed in my bookstore. I'm tired of people wanting help but not having the courtesy to turn their phone off or wait until they are done talking.

Nowadays most lousy parents expect schools and teachers to babysit their children. Parents don't teach their kids respect of any rules, discipline or even manners. They shouldn't even buy them a cellphone in the 1st place, for those who argue "what if there was an emergency," well, that's why schools have their own phone line; besides, not too long ago, students did just fine without having a cellphone, many us did fine as well. So if people did well before them, so can today's generation. For the students who protested the jammer, if I was the principal I would have suspended them. It was more than clear that it was forbidden to have cellphones in school let alone a classroom. For those whynning students, all I have to say is: "who cares what you say, your nothing more that a bunch of snott nose brats who think the world revolve around you." As for the one who thought of the jammer, way to go dude.

This argument should be about the unfortunate reality that there is an overwhelming lack of respect or discipline in our public schools. A teacher is afraid to single anyone out for being an idiot in class for fear of litigation. Cell phones in class, really, who cares. The kids should be a little more respectful and shut them off unless they are between classes or during break times. Yes, they do have an off button. Suddenly we have given power and importance to a group with an overwhelming entitlement mentality and we are trying to blame them.... It is a bit too late for that debate. It is unfortunate that the lack of parenting has led to this dilemma. This generation is being raised by a generation that didn't receive much discipline while they were growing up either. We are ultimately becoming a weaker society, but what can you do. Prisons are going to have to double in size in order to accommodate the lost souls of the future.

Instead of jamming the kids just confiscate phones and hold onto for 30 days and then the parents can come in and claim them. That is the rule of the school and just do it. Not to many People, kids or parents are going to be happy about losing their phone for a month. After you confiscate the phone you turn it off and tag it put it in the safe and in thrity days only one of their parents can claim the phone. After that happens for awhile kids will leave their phones at home. Problem solved.

Put as simply as I know how: No student should bring anything into a learning environment that is not designed specifically to improve their learning experience. That excludes i-pods, cell-phones, knives, drugs, hats, guns, candy, colas, and so on and so forth.

Secondary to that should be what students do while in a learning environment. With or without i-pods, cell-phones, and so on: getting into a fight, sleeping, cheating, socializing, passing notes, gazing with dull eyes out the window, etc. do absolutely nothing to improve a student's learning experience.

Somewhere, somehow, we seem to have lost sight of why a student steps through the front door of a school. The result: It has been decades since the majority of students walking into a kindergarten classroom walked across the stage to collect their graduation diploma 13 years later and did so mentally prepared and emotionally ready to enter the workforce.

And we wonder why America's economy hasn't done well in decades?

in response to Robert's comment; Has he never heard of a land line? and for all the rest against these "poor defenseless" childrens rights being violated; what the heck why not just let the children run the schools since they do not follow the rules anyway? oh wait maybe thats the reason our society is in the shape its in on the whole! when is society going to wake up as a hole and say" we aren't going to take it anymore" a song was written awhile back about it. now maybe its time to take back what we have earned as "Americans" on whole. Don't complain! do something about it! don't tell me you have never been affended from someone on a cell phone Robert! Also how many "accidents" have been caused by cell phones, now they are robbing people on the whole of an education just because you and the "kids" think there civl rights have been challenged. Did you think your civil rights where challenged when your parents gave you rules to follow and then enforced them when you chose not to follow them? Come on wake! smell the coffee!