school confiscates cell phone, lawyer dad is mad?

[Golden_Rhino]

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I don't think this along makes him likely to be a douche. Do we even know how old he is? I brought my cell phone to high school because I would often go to work or some friend's house after school and my parents wanted me to be able to call them. Just because you have it at school doesn't mean you're using it during class.

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It wouldn't be confiscated unless the student was using it out in the open. I doubt they get frisked for cell phones before they walk into class.

[RunDownHouse]

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Just because you have it at school doesn't mean you're using it during class.

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Did you use it during school hours? If you did and its an emergency, then fine, whatever. Given that the dad was really pissed, and a first offense is only "confiscate until day's end," it sounds like this kid was using his cell during school on more than a regular basis.

I agree that the best solution to this "problem" is to use common sense, but it doesn't take a lot of brains to figure out the most likely scenario given OP's description.

[mmcd]

I can see them taking the phone from the kid, and it is a reasonble rule, but when the father goes in there and asks for his phone back, refusing to give it to him is way out of line. Suing the school is obviously ridiculous, but I'd be real pissed if some [censored] middle school principle told me he was going to keep my phone for a month because my kid brought it to school.

Also, IMO, leaving a kid with no phone outside of school for a month poses an unnecessary safety risk.

[Evan]

Golden,

what's the big deal if he uses it at lunch or between classes? There are plenty of legit reasons for that and I did it all the time.


RDH,

I used it during school hours like I said above. I wasn't waving it around in the air and prank calling the principal, but I've heard of plenty of schools making retarded rules and then enforcing them without any common sense. I would like a little more info before I decide the kid is a douche.

[RunDownHouse]

Evan,

"There are plenty of legit reasons for that and I did it all the time."

I'd like to hear some of these and your after-school plans don't qualify in the least. Whether or not its a "big deal" to use a cell during lunch or whatever goes back to the common sense thing, but there's no denying that if they make a "no cells" rule, using it to tell your parents you're going over to Kevin's house after school doesn't really exempt you from following the rule.

[DrewDevil]

My mom's been a teacher and principal for a long time and you would not BELIEVE some of the stories she tells me about these douchebag kids and their parents.

Sometimes Mommy and Daddy refuse to believe little Timmy can do any wrong and they will get pissed at the school for enforcing any rules, no matter how reasonable.

And I would laugh in this lawyer's face for talking about [censored] due process for confiscation of a cell phone. "See you in court, Mr. Douchebagg."

[Recliner]

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Also, IMO, leaving a kid with no phone outside of school for a month poses an unnecessary safety risk.

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Yes, because no one has ever had to go a month without a cell phone. The school has been given no authority to take the kids cell phone. Suspend the kid a day or whatever, but they can't seize property without being given the authority to do so and then they must still give due process.

I hope that guy causes the out of line principal to get canned.

[DrewDevil]

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I can see them taking the phone from the kid, and it is a reasonble rule, but when the father goes in there and asks for his phone back, refusing to give it to him is way out of line. Suing the school is obviously ridiculous, but I'd be real pissed if some [censored] middle school principle told me he was going to keep my phone for a month because my kid brought it to school.

Also, IMO, leaving a kid with no phone outside of school for a month poses an unnecessary safety risk.

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Yes, cell phones save kids lives so much. That's what they're used for, really.

This is a retarded post.

Kids don't need f*cking cell phones, and if they were truly getting them for safety reasons, they would be 20 mins. a month and only allowed to use them in emergencies... not texting their friends across the lunch room 50 times a day.

[4_2_it]

Every year my kids and I have to sign a form acknowledging that we have read, understand and agree to follow the school's code of conduct (it includes a rule against cell phone and text message use). If one of my kids gets caught breaking any of the rules then I have no problem with there being consequences.

This guy is typical of many parents who believe that school is just a tax-payer provided baby sitting service. Dad thinks his kid should have free reign to do whatever he desires just like junior does at home.

[jaffa]

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Also, IMO, leaving a kid with no phone outside of school for a month poses an unnecessary safety risk.

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Yes, because no one has ever had to go a month without a cell phone. The school has been given no authority to take the kids cell phone. Suspend the kid a day or whatever, but they can't seize property without being given the authority to do so and then they must still give due process.

I hope that guy causes the out of line principal to get canned.

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Surely parents send their kids to school with the knowledge that contraband items are liable to be confiscated for a period of time.

As 4_2_it said, you sign a form accepting the consequences for breaking the rules.