School Cell Phone Ban Leads to Gadget Storage Trucks

[The Wooster]

School Cell Phone Ban Leads to Gadget Storage Trucks

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Rather than spend the day without their mobile phones, students attending New York's cell phone-hating public schools have decided to leave their gadgets in the care of a gadget storage truck.

In a desperate bid to teach their students something, New York's public schools have completely banned cell phones. Now, the traditional way of getting around any rules regarding contraband is to take the offending item and cram it into your pocket, bag or rectum, depending the item's value and your tolerance for humiliation. Unfortunately for prospective phone-mules, a number of schools in the NY area have metal detectors, ostensibly to prevent kids from bringing a Glock to school in lieu of their homework. Metal detectors, it turns out, detect phones as well as guns.

A company called Pure Loyalty Electronic Device Storage is looking to take advantage of the average teen's dependence on tiny, beeping doodads by offering to store their phones for a dollar a day. The company has been deploying brightly-painted storage trucks outside schools that have metal detectors. The truck outside De Witt Clinton High School in the Bronx serves an estimated 500 to 550 students a day and pulls in nearly $100,000 a year. Of course, I imagine there's some risks inherent in filling a small truck with thousands of dollars worth of electronics and parking it outside of a school without a high enough incidence of gun crime to warrant a metal detector.

Kids these days, eh? When I was a boy, not only did I not have a cell phone, I had to walk to school every day. Uphill. Through lava.

Source: NY Times [http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2011/10/27/ban-on-cellphones-creates-a-tale-of-two-city-schools/]


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[Lunar Templar]

Kids these days, eh? When I was a boy, not only did I not have a cell phone, I had to walk to school every day. Uphill. Through lava.

only lava?

sissy ...

back in my day, it was uphill, though lava as 20 feet of snow, while fighting of polar bears and lava beasts.

kindergarten was a ***** lemme tell you

 

[Jack and Calumon]

...Why not just leave it at home? I did that during High School, managed just fine without it.

Calumon: I...

No, no Calumon, seriously, leave it at home! You save money! My god, all that money you can save! A dollar a day? That's like $250 a year (Including weekends and holiday periods)! I could buy myself 4 games with that, 4 brand new games! I could get a new non-smartphone for that and still have money left over to throw a cheese party! What is the point? Seriously? Convinience of having I right as you come out? Sure, battle with the other 500 students trying to get their phones, I'll walk back on home and get mine. What if I have to catch the bus too and there's a mob of students checking out their phones? Seriously, I hate this idea so much, I just want to shake some sense into these students!

Calumon: I don't wanna talk anymore...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I don't even know where my cell phone is right now. Do I really care? Not really, I'll find it when I need it. Probably in a few days or something. I am completely unattached to it.

Spoiler: Kids these days...

 

[Tony2077]

the only handheld tech i have is a psp. i could afford one but frankly i don't care enough to go through with it

 

[Sarah Frazier]

There's no way I'd go to a school these without a phone for emergencies. Not just in case I get in a car wreck, but because of the health problems my parents have been having. If something happens to them, why should I not be told just because a bunch of techno-brats won't put their own phones down for a few hours?

I guess what I'm saying is... I can understand the school wants the students to focus, but there may be a few rare cases where they need to be in contact in case something happens at home. Why not confiscate phones from those who abuse having them, and put them on a list to have the phones put in storage before they go to class?

 

[Scarim Coral]

Bah back in my days we never have mobile phones when we were in School. Sure in High school one or two pupils had one and got caught or just hid it well.
Goes to show how some people are that reliant on technology.

 

[Togusa09]

I just left mine in my bag. What's the point of using it in class if it's going to get confiscated anyway.

You forgot to mention that you had to walk uphill home too. Through razor blades.

 

[TimeLord]

Kids these days, eh? When I was a boy, not only did I not have a cell phone, I had to walk to school every day. Uphill. Through lava.

You should come visit Scotland sometime! We still do that here! Lava can be a right ***** on the shoes!

OT: Does the storage truck also have the words "FREE CANDY" written on the side?

 

[putowtin]

OT: Does the storage truck also have the words "FREE CANDY" written on the side?

and signs saying "Oh look puppies!"

 

[Cowabungaa]

That's sort of...sad, really. I mean sheesh, when a teacher caught someone texting in class they just took it away for a week or so and that's that. But friggin' metal detector? What kind of police state nonsense is that?

 

[Dr Pussymagnet]

That's sort of...sad, really. I mean sheesh, when a teacher caught someone texting in class they just took it away for a week or so and that's that. But friggin' metal detector? What kind of police state nonsense is that?

Well their purpose in these kinds of areas is to detect things like weapons and other potentially dangerous items but now I guess they're just including cell phones as well.

 

[Dastardly]

That's sort of...sad, really. I mean sheesh, when a teacher caught someone texting in class they just took it away for a week or so and that's that. But friggin' metal detector? What kind of police state nonsense is that?

In some areas, kids bringing knives (and occasionally guns) to school isn't uncommon. All the school can do is try to monitor, and try to catch the stuff on the way in. That way, normal fights stay normal fights, rather than becoming murder scenes. At the very least, it ensures the public can't come back and say, "You didn't do anything to keep that child from stabbing that other child!"

The cell phone thing is honestly just a side-effect.

 

[Dandark]

That's sort of...sad, really. I mean sheesh, when a teacher caught someone texting in class they just took it away for a week or so and that's that. But friggin' metal detector? What kind of police state nonsense is that?

As I understand it the metal detector wasn't there for phones. It was already there because the area had a high rate of gun crime, it's just that it happened to pick up phones too so when getting checked for guns they would have to remove their phone.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Kids these days, eh? When I was a boy, not only did I not have a cell phone, I had to walk to school every day. Uphill. Through lava.

None of that modern day sluggish lava as well, this were proper Pompei stuff. If you still had eyebrows by the time you got to school, they'd send you back home. In your pants and vest.

Now, if I was a mean person, I'd have a chat to lots of my friends and get them to set their alarm for 11:59. On full volume.

 

[koroem]

So maybe I'm not understanding this correctly. Kids are waking up, getting ready for school, taking their cell phones on the bus to school. Then they get to school, after what, maybe 10-20 minutes at the most? Take their phone to the storage truck pay a dollar, then go into the school for 6-8 hours. Then when school is over they pick up their phones then get on the bus to go home/work/friends house?

Seriously. WTF? Is the 10 minutes having the phone worth the money to make someone else hold it for so long with the potential for theft or invasion of privacy? Please tell me I'm missing something here. Kids these days...

 

[DEAD34345]

I've never really got the logic in out-right banning mobile phones. When kids are using them during lesson, the problem is that they're not interested, not that they have a phone. Take the phones away and they'll just switch to cutting up rubbers, or flicking people with rulers, or just mentally shutting down.

Also, wow, metal detectors on the way into school. Makes it sound like some kind of freaky, dystopian future over there. Is that common?

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Kids these days, eh? When I was a boy, not only did I not have a cell phone, I had to walk to school every day. Uphill. Through lava.

None of that modern day sluggish lava as well, this were proper Pompei stuff. If you still had eyebrows by the time you got to school, they'd send you back home. In your pants and vest.

Pants? What luxury! Back in my day we didn't have pants yet. You were lucky if you had a burlap sack. Most of us just had a loincloth made of leaves and bark.

 

[Keava]

Kids these days, eh? When I was a boy, not only did I not have a cell phone, I had to walk to school every day. Uphill. Through lava.

None of that modern day sluggish lava as well, this were proper Pompei stuff. If you still had eyebrows by the time you got to school, they'd send you back home. In your pants and vest.

Pants? What luxury! Back in my day we didn't have pants yet. You were lucky if you had a burlap sack. Most of us just had a loincloth made of leaves and bark.

Hey at least You all had schools to go to. We had to go out soon after midnight to build the damned shack first, and i tell You, it's not easy to build wooden structures on uphill flowing lava while it's snowing...

Silliness aside. People are stupid. We already knew that. School kids obviously lead in that competition. If they want to waste money on having someone hold Their phone... Hey i can hold Your phone for a 1$ too!