The teacher took her cel phone!
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| Thu, 08-30-2007 - 1:00pm |
Yes, she has been warned, no texting at school, no texting while driving. I will be checking! Don't know about the driving, but DD 16 had her cel phone confiscated this morning for texting in class. DH went to the school to retrieve the phone, and he is mad.
Now in the grand scheme of things, I know this is small potatoes. She is basically a good kid, and pretty responsible. She gets good grades, dances 3-4 evenings a week, and is working part time to pay for a spring break school trip to Paris and Italy. Her car is old (1981 Mercedes) and she drives about 25 minutes to a Performing Arts charter school, so she MUST have a phone. For my peace of mind, if nothing else.
My first reaction is to cancel the text messaging, and block it. Does that seem reasonable? The texting is new, but got quickly out of hand. I would say that before this summer and the PT job, she had very little social life. Her school is very small, the kids live all over the place, and there are very few boys. All of the sudden she is going out with boys, and they all seem to communicate exclusively by text. I am glad she is going out, I think she needs some practice with it before college! And I can't believe that if they can't reach her by text, they won't call.
So, my question. Is cancelling texting an overreaction to one phone confiscation? Her Dad is livid, so I'm sure some scolding will be involved. He wants to take the phone away completely, but we need a compromise here.
She is supposed to go bowling with a group tonight, and is meeting a boy for a movie on Sunday. She can't go out without her phone, my rules.
As you can tell, I am not experienced at this! She is my only child, and has been very little trouble up to now.
Diana

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Be careful...All cell phones have the ability to text. It's whether or not you have a plan and how many texts the plan covers. Our initial plan covered 1,000 texts per month and my daughter still went over. I switched to unlimited for a few dollars more. It wasn't worth the grief and the hours pouring over the bill to find the charges.
She can still text on your phone!!
I know I never needed a cell phone or text messaging to get me to cut class for any reason. :) If I wanted to cut class, I did. If I wanted to meet up with my boyfriend, we'd either plan it the night before or in the morning before class, or even at lunch. Not saying it's right, just saying that cell phone texting is not *necessarily* the culprit for a kid cutting class.
I personally was always concerned about my kids texting during class because I was afraid they would cheat on a test. (Just one reason for me to have cancelled texting on all our phones--besides the fact that they shouldn't be on the phone in class anyway.)
I certainly don't mind my kid's cell being taken for the day...and I actually *like* the idea of a kid having to do something extra for the school to earn it back, I just hate the requirement of the parent having to go in during school hours and fork over $20, plus the kid serving a detention, the 1st time my kid forgets and leaves his cell phone in his pocket (fyi--he wasn't even using it, he just had it in his pocket).
LOL! That's funny about the mom. Now, I will admit, I'm pretty lazy, so I have, on occasion, called ds from various and sundry parking lots if he isn't outside waiting on me to come out, so I don't have to park, or pay to get in, or the weather is crappy, or I'm not dressed for "public veiwing" (ROFL), but *never* while he is in school! OMG, now that's carrying it a little too far! LOL
She leaves it in the car - or shuts it off during school hours - your rule. If she has it taken again absolutely remove texting ability.
Courtney
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