Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/39711222.html" target="_blank">http://www.jsonline.com/news/m...222.html</a>
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Another thing that might help is parents parenting their children. This girl clearly has no respect for authority. I'm guessing that was not a value that was instilled in her.
Originally Posted By DAR I know the school and the area of Wauwatosa where it's located is a little hoity toity. This girl probably thought she was entitled to be texting in class. But it's stories like this that cause me to ask: Do I really want to pay for that persons health care.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck Working for a cell phone provider, I talk to completely ignorant parents on a regular basis who just have no clue how their children could have texting usage in the 10-20,000s per month when their kids aren't "allowed" to text in school. Whatever.
Originally Posted By Mr X I'm really missing something here. They have cops patrolling the schools? And they can write out citations to minors, for ANYTHING, to the tune of hundreds of bucks? (that's a new one for me) Texting on a cell phone might be "disorderly conduct" in some sort of weird "school world" universe...but it's not disorderly conduct (I don't see how you can fine a student financially anyway, but I guess I've been away for a while)..it's breaking school rules. Suspension? Sure. Writing a ticket? Weird.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder We had two full time cops on my high school campus in suburban Chicago in 1972.
Originally Posted By Mr X Sucks to be you. (and that's very sad, in general..to my knowledge there are no police patrolling any schools where *I* live)
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Maybe not in Japan, but here in my town, which is not considered a high crime area, there are police that patrol the Jr. High and High Schools.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <We had two full time cops on my high school campus in suburban Chicago in 1972< better than my inner city Chicago school- due to 'issues' we were on police lockdown all 4 years- closed campus - search upon entry etc. ( I grad in 1972)
Originally Posted By LadyKluck Every school I went to here in Idaho had an on duty officer "patrol" the school every day. He was called the School Resource Officer (had his own office by the counselors') and did everything from patrol the parking lot to take bullying complaints to break up fights, etc. He could write out tickets too. I only ever saw that happen once. The article says she got a ticket for not listening to what she was being told to do over and over, not the texting specifically.
Originally Posted By mele I am hoping there are some pieces missing from this story. Like maybe the girl started getting really mouthy once the cop siezed her phone. If not, I think the officer was out of line.
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney Wow, so they can ticket a child who does not listen in class?? Really?? When I was in high school a bit ago and you were disruptive, you went to the Principle's office and maybe were suspended. But not once, did anyone write a ticket for hundreds of dollars
Originally Posted By LadyKluck My guess is like mele said, there's parts missing, like this girl is a repeat offender on the texting in class or she got an attitude when she was asked to stop. It sounds that way to me because she said she didn't have a cell when she was told to stop. The way I read it was she had a 'tude about it.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney The article says her ticket was for disorderly conduct, and it seems like failure to do what the officer asked (that has some official terminology, doesn't it?). "The officer gave the student a $298 ticket for disorderly conduct and kept the Samsung. Wauwatosa police spokesman Lt. Dominic Leone notes Wauwatosa East has a policy against texting during classes and said the situation would not have escalated if the student had followed the officer's instructions. "The arrest was more for her behavior than for the texting," Leone said. "All she had to do was put the phone away and that would have been that.""
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney So you can be ticketed for attitude..I am not advocating this childs behavior, but that seems a bit wrong to me. suspend her,talk to her, send her home, YES!! But ticket her and arrest her..good grief...
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>So you can be ticketed for attitude.<< Yes you can. Give a cop attitude during a routine traffic stop, get uncooperative, lie to the officer, and things can escalate pretty quickly. Little Miss Tude can text her BFF elsewhere, not in a classroom where taxpayer dollars are attempting to teach kids things they need to know. Maybe the fine will capture her attention, or that of her folks.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "better than my inner city Chicago school- due to 'issues' we were on police lockdown all 4 years- closed campus - search upon entry etc. ( I grad in 1972)" And keep in mind, since I would imagine you're familiar, I went to Forest View High School in Arlington Heights (it no longer exists, BTW). Arlington Heights was not and still isn't considered a bad area. But we needed 'em, no doubt about it. Vietnam was still in full swing, LSD was prevalent, and there were so many kids on campus things were bound to get rowdy now and then. One of the cops was Officer Wally Moist. Much hilarity often ensued at the expense of his last name.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains <<The officer's report says the student refused to stop texting during class Feb. 11 after a teacher told her to stop and the student told the resource officer she didn't have a phone. She continued denying she had a phone, forcing the resource officer to walk back and forth to the classroom twice and find other students who saw her using it, according to the report. The male school resource officer called for a female officer to conduct a search, the report says. The student laughed as the female officer explained that she found the Samsung phone in the student's clothes, hidden near her buttocks, according to the report. The student, the resource officer notes, "is known to me and the administration based on prior negative contacts.">> I think this played a part in it... The resource officer had to keep coming back to the same room - because she denied having the phone. <<After the arrest, the student was suspended for a week. She received citations Thursday and Friday for trespassing on campus, Leone said.>> Even after the fine and suspention she still wouldn't obey and received more citations for the trespassing. Seems to me this was an easy fix for the parents... Take away the phone!
Originally Posted By dshyates There is one thing about having my kids go to school in the middle of nowhere WV. They DON'T have cops, nor do they need them. And they don't get cell service anywhere near where they go to school or live. So my girls don't even have cell phones.
