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Schools that completely ban the possession of cell phones need to offer a way for students to store their phones during the day in the lobby of the school. They
by javert 14y ago
Schools that completely ban the possession of cell phones need to offer a way for students to store their phones during the day in the lobby of the school. They could just issue each student a tiny locker with a key.
I have multiple reasons for saying this. One reason of lesser importance (but perhaps more interesting) is: who's to say these trucks aren't copying the flash drives off smartphones?
I'm all for entrepreneurship but society has already decided that education is not up for a free market, so it's not worth haggling over tiny details like this.
- lotu 14y agoWho's to say the guy watching the phones for the school isn't copying the flash drives off the smartphones? And honestly why would they? I doubt the contents of a teen's cell phone are very interesting and doing so would endager their business which they take seriously enough to have a 2 million dollar insurance policy on.
- javert 14y agoAs I said, the security issue here is interesting to me as somewhat of a "hacker," but not really so important. However, there definitely are ways to exploit this. For example, the person holding the phones could search for nude pictures, or material in text messages that could be used to blackmail the children (possibly the same thing, not necessarily). I think having a bunch of "cell phone lockers" in a very public area of a public school would guard against that kind of thing pretty effectively. It would take a conspiracy of school employees to pull it off and really not be worth it.