School Cellphone Bans Topple (You Can't Suspend Everyone)
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Rather than banning the phones outright, schools are capitulating to demands of parents and market realities, and allowing students to carry cellphones in school.
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Talking out of your..oh, wait Three high school students in the US have been suspended from school for saying "vagina". This sounds silly, but gets even sillier when you learn that they said the word during a reading of "The Vagina Monologues".â¦
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LONDON - Just who do you want seeing your photos on Facebook, one of the fastest-rising of the worldÃÂÃÂs new social networking websites? If youÃÂÃÂre a student celebrating the end of exams with traditional end-of-term high-jinks, the answer just might not include your college disciplinary committee.
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It's happened again. A teacher is accused of having sex with a student and, like many times before, cell phone calls and texting reportedly had a role in sexually abusing a minor. The same cell phones that parents buy as safety devices for their children are the gadgets that pedophiles and predators use to prep kids for sexual encounters, experts and police say.
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Until federal regulators issued a landmark ruling in 1968, Americans could not own the telephones in their homes, nor attach answering machines or other devices to them. Now, a growing number of academics and consumer activists say it's time to deliver a similar ground-breaking jolt to the cellphone industry, possibly triggering a new round of customer options and technical innovations to rival the one that produced faxes, modems and the Internet....
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The question of cellphones for preteenagers and teenagers is rarely one of financial cost anymore. It is one of social value.
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Forget the knife in a cake. The hottest illegal device behind bars these days is the cell phone.
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By The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 15--UPDATED AT 10:10 A.M.   A computer network outage affecting several educational organizations in Whatcom County has knocked out e-mail and Internet access to several school sites.
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Leave your cellphone and BlackBerry at home. They won't work at these vacation spots.
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Early this month, several Web sites began offering software promising ringtones and screensavers for certain cell phones. But those who downloaded the software found that it turned every icon on their cell phones' screens into a skull-and-crossbones and disabled their phones, so they could no longer send or receive text messages or access contact lists or calendars.
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For months, Shira Barlow's cell phone was flooded with wrong-number calls and text messages, mostly between 2 and 4 a.m. on weekends. Told they had reached a college student, callers refused to believe it.
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A 16-year-old girl has lost her case against her school after she was banned from wearing a "purity ring" in class.
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Beginning in August 2007, the N.C.A.A. banned Division I colleges from using text messaging to recruit athletes.  But now, the issue is being revisited once again.
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Update: A little digging shows the Pennsylvania high schooler in detention is in the doghouse for mouthing off, not for using Firefox, as reported on the web. Turns out the kid altered the scanned detention report, sparking the "punished for using Firefox" story. Look for a retraction from the culprit.
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Federal regulators decided yesterday to prevent states from heavily regulating companies that provide Internet-based phone service.
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The Federal Communications Commission has voted to consider eliminating its ban on the use of cell phones on airplanes. The agency instituted the ban because of potential interference with ground-based cell systems.
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States are now barred from imposing telecommunications regulations on Net phone providers.