Nobody knows what part text messages might have played in the May 20 suicide of 11-year-old Celina Okwuone.
But police have released transcripts of texts she received — and sent — just hours before she killed herself. Both outgoing and incoming messages are mean. Sarah Coleman, a Stuart psychologist who did not know Celina but who [...]
First it was a quick phone call in a bathroom. Then it was texting underneath the desk. Now it’s video of fights and confrontations in hallways.
Prince George’s County educators have watched as advancing technology has expanded the ways in which cellphones can distract and get students in trouble. So, the school board is poised to [...]
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(NOTE: It continues to amaze most cyberbullying experts that school officials persist in conducting illegal searches of students’ cell phones. This is not the first case of this sort, nor will it be the last. School officials need to remember that not only do the students whose phones they seize have rights — so do [...]
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Tanya Chilcott
September 04, 2009 12:00am
BANNING mobile phones has halted cyber bullying and transformed classrooms for the better in one north Queensland high school, the principal says.
At lunchtime, you can actually hear the policy’s success.
Atherton State High School principal Tony Whybird said the sound of children playing again at lunchtime, instead of silently texting on their [...]
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Lynne Marek
The National Law Journal
August 17, 2009
Chicago cell phone users fighting to fend off a city ordinance that bars them from driving and chatting on their phone without a hands-free device have lost another round.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a decision Thursday (pdf) agreed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern [...]
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By Bret Yager
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
Pahoa High and Intermediate School will ban electronic devices from campus starting next year. The school will also adopt T-shirt uniforms.
There have been high incidences of theft and even arrests as students swipe each other’s cell phones, iPods, CD players and other electronics, said Principal Dean Cevallos.
The ban comes after discussions by [...]
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With finals week either already here or rapidly approaching, college students who have spent the semester boozing and playing video games might find themselves in a bit of a hole on the studying front. If they’re particularly unprepared, some slackers might feel tempted to do a little cheating to help them avoid summer school. Be [...]
By Gracie Hart
Review Staff Writer
Published: April 15, 2009
OMG! UR BF is PDA w/UR BFF. FWIW it’s BFO
IDK! WE! G2G
Translation: Oh my gosh. Your boyfriend is having public displays of affection with your best friend forever. For what it’s worth, it’s a blinding flash of obviousness.
Your response: I don’t know. Whatever. I’ve got to go.
It used [...]
Are kids today worse than ever?
by Martha Brockenbrough
Here’s something discouraging for anyone who knows and cares about high school students: According to the 2006 Josephson Institute Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth, almost all of the high school students surveyed–98 percent–say it’s important to be an honest and honorable person.
Likewise, most of them–92 [...]
by Jason Levy
Despite numerous accolades and killer ratings, I’d somehow missed the TV counter-terrorist boat. As of last summer, I’d sailed straight past the first six seasons of 24. Thanks to iTunes, I’ve been catching up, downloading season after thrilling season. Preposterous plotlines and torturous interrogations aside, 24 is highly entertaining and a pure adrenaline [...]
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