thearcanetheory:stfuconservatives:searchingforknowledge:native-detroiter:nybooks:Cell phones are ban
thearcanetheory:stfuconservatives:searchingforknowledge:native-detroiter:nybooks:Cell phones are banned from public schools in New York City and students must store them in trucks outside the school during the day. The business of storing cell phones takes in around $22,800 a day, from students paying a dollar a day for storage. Francine Prose talked to students about the situation when she visited a high school in the Bronx recently.“Why, the students asked, are the students in more prosperous neighborhoods unofficially allowed to ignore the ban, as long as they aren’t caught? And why are the poor kids in the eighty-eight New York schools that have been equipped with metal detectors forced to spend five dollars a week—an expense that, for some, means going without food?”Why Are Poor Kids Paying for School Security? http://j.mp/XTq8xgPhoto: Students lining up to pay for cell phone storage near New York’s Washington Irving High School, September 27, 2012 (Tina Fineberg/AP Images)Dis complete and utter FUCKERY.Really? For real, New York? You’re charging poor kids $20/month to have a way to call their parents to pick them up after school? That is so fucked I cannot begin to even.If the school are forcing them to check their phonesthe school ought to pay for them (yeah, out of their allocated budget)not the kids out of pocketsfuck -- source link
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