Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Student Arrested For Classroom Texting

When you put cops in schools, school discipline issues become police issues.

According to the The Smoking Gun "A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl who refused to stop texting during a high school math class was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct ..." Read the rest of the story, including the 5 page police report here.

See also SchooltoPrison.org "Challenging the School to Prison Pipeline".

1 comment:

MLR said...

A Utah woman who sent two text messages to her husband from a court hearing about his debt collection case has been sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Read rest of article hereAt least it's not just high school students who are arrested for texting but I think the husband is right that the wife's actions should not have resulted in a contempt action.