14-year-old Wisconsin student arrested for texting in class

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A 14-year-old high-school student has the dubious distinction of being perhaps the first American ever arrested for texting in class.

The Wisconsin girl was charged with disorderly conduct last week after refusing to stop texting during her math class and then denying she had a phone, according to a police report.

"The School Resource officer at Wauwatosa East High School was asked to go to room 242 and remove a student who refuses to stop texting on her phone during class," the Wauwatosa Police Department officer wrote in his report. "The student (w/f 6-23-94) is known to me and the administration based on prior negative contacts."

It's unclear what those earlier "negative contacts" were. But what is clear is that the arresting officer gave the student a a $298 ticket for disorderly conduct and kept the Samsung, according to the report, which The Smoking Gun published in full Tuesday.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/14yearold_student_arrested_for_texting_in_0217.html

Weird........

[vanderBeth]

1. Christ. Nobody could have taken the phone up for the period? Or send her to the principal's office?

:eyes:

[sam sarrha]

3. you really dont understand the potential dangers if mess'n with 14 yr old Bitchettes

[LisaL]

8. How do you propose that should have been done?

According to the article, the student denied even having a cell phone.

[sam sarrha]

2. as a former JPO.. arrested while being a Bitchette..wasnt that uncommon, female Delinquents represen...

only 4% of Juvenile Delinquents, but they will give you the Grief of 20 bots, some are truly mentally ill, some simply hypoglycemic, or abused at home..etc... but our parole office had 20% females.. i saw my share of mental cases, a few very dangerious.

[Belial]

4. More and more schools have "Resource Officers" that

help maintain submission.. err.. discipline in schools.

[marksmithfield]

5. She should get life in the chair!

No cell phones in school should be a national law.

[mykpart]

6. Arrested??!!!

Whatever happened to being sent to the principal's office? Whatever happened to Detention?

[depakid]

9. Not good enough

She needs to be sent to a private detention facility- with kickbacks going to the school district.

[JVS]

7. No. She was arrested for disorderly conduct.

[surrealAmerican]

10. Can you remember when schools ...

... didn't want their students to have a criminal record? If there hadn't been a "School Resource officer at Wauwatosa East High School" this kid would have been sent to the principal, had her phone confiscated until a parent came in to pick it up, and gotten a week's detention. Now, instead, she has a fine that her parents will have to pay, and a record with the police. I just don't see that as an improvement.

[ellie]

11. Good lord

My husband, who is in his late 30s, went back to college, and he says all the "kids" in class text constantly. Whole classrooms would be arrested and college campuses would be deserted if this becomes a trend!

We are so out of touch: we have one cellphone we use for emergencies. I just don't have anything to say to anyone!