I haven't seen it.

So maybe we're lucky and his school isn't insane.

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Just not my backyard, pal.

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Then you will have kids who claim they don't have their phones as to not put then in the case. Then sneak them out when they think you are not paying attention.

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You can't really fine kids in public schools.

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Public schools have all kinds of fees. Charge a "Phone repossession Fee".

Done.

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Will.Not.Happen

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You can't fine students in public schools. Charter used to do it but I think they had to stop the practice a few years ago.

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have the CPD seize the phone as a civil forfeiture

Done

It's not a fine, it's a fee. Public schools charge hundreds of dollars in fees per year. Are they all illegal?

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Install phone lockers like they have at the courthouse ahead of the metal detectors.

Then the kids can keep their phones in those all day along with their drug and weapons.

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Which courthouse has those?

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Freedom is our Strength.

Have we thought about segregating schools?

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26th & California

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they bring in old phones, too. they hand in the old one and simply use the one that works.

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Wrong bus list.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Period. There are no other options.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

that is pretty much the case in CPS anyway.

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In theory, that sounds good. And you might be able to swing it in your house, but given the weird schedules people have, it doesn't always work out. So much easier when it does, though. And much more enjoyable to all eat together.

That one don't eat this, and this one don't eat that.

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My 12 yr old attends public school in the SW burbs and they have the same policy. It seems to be effective.

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Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.- JD Vance
If you committed violence on that day, obviously, you shouldn’t be pardoned.- JD Vance on the J-6 insurrectionists

If I catch them with it I'll chop off their thumbs. Have fun texting now!

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Got that right, remember the stry from about a year ago with the kid who was at one of the elite schools who racked up over $300 in fines and they where going to expel him. His mother put up a stink that she could not afford to pay so they could not do that to him and they basically let it slide. I mean why have rules and a code of conduct that both the parent and student agree to before school starts to have them basically later in the year tell the school to go fuck themselves. I also remember most of the SJW around here siding with the parent on this.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I don't remember that.

Link?

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Conns, I don't get you. You're funny, your posts are always spot on, and you come from one of the classiest parts of Chicago--dare I say the Midwest--and yet...your baseball allegiance....

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(Ring sound effect)

It is the clueless administrators who approved of and allow children to have phones in high school. The teachers hate them, knowing how much they are of a distraction. Yet, the superintendents and principals expect the teachers to be miracle workers and make the kids learn, when there's virtually no incentive for them to do that.

While the above is a big cause for concern, the root-problem is generational. Children these days have no respect for teachers or their parents, because parents do not instill values in them, nor discipline them. And then the teachers aren't allowed to discipline either in the schools. You send a kid to the office, and he's back in 10 minutes.

I would prefer that children in middle school and high school have to repeat grades for failing grades. If they don't advance after one year, they should be forced to find a private school at the parents expense. If they don't have the money, tough bananas. You had your one chance.

So true. That social emotional learning stuff is crap. Then the school doesn't enforce what they taught anyway. Nobody really teaches these kids how to study or hold them accountable for much. Parents don't even know in Some cases because the kids are given good grades and everybody tells you they are great because it's almost forbidden to correct them on anything.

You might not need to say much else after that...

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Hmmm what neighborhood?

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More often than not, it's the clueless school boards...

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So weird. If the kids do not pay attention why do they not just fail them. Or if they are smart enough to pass without paying attention so be it. It's the kind child's own future, make them responsible.