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Originally Posted by elephant007

Our school district here has initiated a $15.00 fee for kids who get caught using their cell phone during school hours except during lunch... after the second infraction the parent has to come pick up the cell phone... just another way the school is generating money, supposedly it's going to a general fund and from what I hear the high schools (2 of them with about 4,500 students total) has generated a lot of revenue from these fines

Wow, that's not as bad as my kid's school district. In high school, if they are caught with a phone on school property, a parent has to come get it. The kid also gets one day in-school suspension for it.

The second offense and the school takes the phone and neither the student or parents are allowed to retrieve it until the end of the school year. The kid also gets three days in-school suspension for it.

Now, all that said, I have had three kids in high school and have never had one reach the second level of phone confiscation. And that is good, because there is no way in hell I would sit back and pay for service for a phone that my kid didn't have, and not raise all kinds of trouble at the school.

LOL, I would probably end up in in-school suspension, too.