City parents are not taking the newly enacted cell phone ban sitting down. A citywide organization of parent association leaders plans to sue
the city’s Department of Education to overturn a ban on students
carrying cellphones in public schools. They are planning to file a lawsuit today in Manhattan, which will argue that the ban is unsafe because it makes it tough for parents to stay in touch with their children before and after school. Parents are angry that the schools are subjecting students to random x-ray scans and are confiscating cell phones.
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I think it is a shame that someone who wants their child to take a cell phone to school is perceived as self rightous is apalling. I am a disabled parent and I don’t work but I would want to get in touch with my child if I am running late from a doctor’s appointment. I want to be able to give instruction for my child as to what to do until I get there in time to pick it up. Futhermore pay phones are not readily available and when they are they don’t even work. Cell phones are not all that expensive I was able to get my daughter a virgin mobile prepaid phone for $20.00 and all I have to do is add $20.00 dollars every 3 months to keep it active. That is cheaper that any pay phone over the cost of 3 months. She only uses it in emergencies. One her afterschool program got cancelled and the school did not notify me and she waited almost 2 hours outside her because she did not have a phone at the time. She could have been snatched up. I am at home thinking she is in school safe. If she had had a phone at the time she could have called me. There is nothing self righteous about loving your child and making sure they are safe. Bloomberg’s daughter is an adult so he doesn’t know what is like to raise a child in 2006.
It really is a shame that a bunch of self-rightous parent’s can’t just figure out how to teach their snotty kids how to use a pay phone. New Flash… most kids in public school can’t aford cell phones. The lawsuit has to be defended, which will take money away from educating our children. Just so a handful of parents who work can actually feel like they are a part of their kids life.
This ban is pretty lame. Bloomberg and Klein said cell phones are banned because students use it to cheat, do drugs, summon up fights, and play games, but they can still do these things even if they didn’t have cell phones. It’s wrong to scan students for something that is almost a necessity. We also have to be fair. Teachers get to keep their phones and they have it on and it does ring during class. Klein says that students cell phones ringing during class is disruptive, but here is one truth. A teacher’s phone ringing in the middle of a lesson is just as disruptive as a student’s phone ringing. How would Bloomberg and Klein feel if they had kids going to schools far away from thier home and had no contact them, but then again, they don’t have kids that do that, so they’ll never know and just think about themselves. The DOE only thinks about the bad things of cell phones and not the good things. There’s plenty of resolutions, but Bloomberg and Klein don’t care
The operative words are before and after school to be in touch. During the school day no phones education only. Do not waste city dollars, my taxes, on the stupidity of this lawsuit the money is to educate.