... The child is not going to learn anything from the school charging the parents a fee. The child does not have a job, the parent does. So where's the punishment for the child? ...
I think the learning will have to happen at home. My child knows that it will be the end of the world as she knows it if I have to pay to ransom a cell phone. We would all learn to live without the phone, and that would just be the beginning.
I really believe that a kid using a cell phone to the point of class disruption has no business having a cell phone at all. If that means they have to stay within the parent's sight at all times, so be it.
(shakes cane at kids in yard ... need a smiley for that, too)
