In new jersey can your school take your cell phone and not give it back until you serve a detention?
even if you cant serve the detentoin for a while
2007-10-24 07:52:59 · 10 answers · asked by 1111customs 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
even if your dad gos to the school to get it
2007-10-24 08:00:28 · update #1
First, why do you need a cell phone in class? When you get it back, leave it in your locker. There is no need for it in the classroom.
And yes, they can do this. It is in the handbook, and you will get it back after you do your restitution (detention). I'm also guessing that you were given a warning before about it.
My daughter's school will take it away until after class for the first offense, take it away until a parent comes to claim it for the second offense, and take it away for the rest of the school year for the third. It will never get to that because one of the condition we as parent placed on her to have the cell phone is if she gets caught with it in class JUST ONCE, we take it away until she graduates.
2007-10-24 08:12:42 · answer #1 · answered by Mutt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You are the type person that forces the schools to deprive everyone else of the opportunity to have a phone AT school. The schools where I live require phones to be in the locker while at school. Students can check for calls during class changes (but not use them at this time).
2007-10-24 08:17:49 · answer #2 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they can. Maybe you should have listened to the rules explained at the beginning of the year. There's an easy way out of this. Serve your detention.
2007-10-24 07:59:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You knew about cell phones. You broke the rule. So suffer.
2007-10-24 08:03:34 · answer #4 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am assuming you handed it over, which by definition means that you chose to engage in this useless power struggle. It is illegal for anyone to take anything that you own from your person by force...its called theft.
By being a student in the school, you are not giving over your rights at all, your parents are giving them over. A minor is not able to enroll themselves in school alone, just like they are not allowed to live alone, and so therefore your parents were required to relinquish the theoretical control they have over you (because they don't actually have any physical, permanent control over your body). When your parents relinquished their custody of you in a legal sense, they willingly subjugated you to the rules of the institution...in this case a school.
I assume you know the rules of the school even if you don't choose to follow them, and I also assume that you know the consequences of breaking these rules. It's not a stretch to assume because I was in public school relatively recently and I'm sure things haven't changed much...they LOVE to tell you what you are doing wrong, what you are not allowed to do, and how much you will be punished if you disobey.
You chose to engage the school in a confrontation first with the unauthorized use of the cell phone (which I believe to be a retarded rule, just impossible to enforce evenly) and then by handing the cell phone over. Trust me, if you just shut up, kept smiling and squeezed that phone in your hand as tightly as possible in order to force the school to physically remove it from your body, your parents would have lawyers jumping down their necks to try and sue the pants off of everybody involved, the teacher, the school & administrators, the school district.
It's called active non-violent resistance...try it next time...
2007-10-24 08:08:36 · answer #5 · answered by gottjoshie 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It'll be in you school hand book.
I know at my daughhters school, the parents (me) have to come pick the phone up from the principle and she gets detention.
2007-10-24 08:00:10 · answer #6 · answered by tnfarmgirl 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I had an analogous situation at present the place a instructor took my telephone and appeared with the aid of my pictures. I appeared it up and that they do no longer look to be allowed to try this. this is an invasion of privateness, even in spite of the incontrovertible fact that they do have permission to take your telephone, as long as they do no longer look on your telephone.
2016-12-18 16:20:53 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep - it's called "the rules".
(I know, I know.....you had a darn good reason to break them right? )
Bummer for you but you shouldn't have had your cell phone out in school.
2007-10-24 08:03:47 · answer #8 · answered by Susie D 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they can.
2007-10-24 07:59:41 · answer #9 · answered by SMS 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes they can.....good luck
2007-10-24 07:55:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋