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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If a primary school boy was given a large new iPhone without any web restrictions and was using it to introduce and look at pornography with classmates. And one of those classmate's parents found out and turned the boy into school administrators, how would the school punish the child? Apparently this had been going on since the start of this school year and has totally warped the minds of the boys. These are only 9 and 10 years old.[/quote]

If this happened during school, [b]and if the school didn't expel the student, I would leave the school (and initiate a lawsuit if they threatened to keep me on the hook for tuition payments)[/b]; I might even leave the school regardless of whether they expelled the offending student. Schools step into the role of primary guardian of our children during school hours, and if they were so incompetent as to be allowing 9 year-old boys to be engaging in this activity during school hours for over two months, my trust in the school would be shattered.

Obviously the boy made a mistake, which is to be expected of children; [b]however, the parents are at fault for giving their child a phone without any restrictions, and those type of careless parents should not be welcome in any decent private school. [/b][/quote]

I can't decide if this is sarcastic, or hopelessly naive.  Regardless, LOL at the notions that you get to dictate how schools punish other kids, or that private school kids, and their parents are somehow paragons of virtue.  Good stuff, PP.  [/quote]

I read it more like: if the school I am at is both so lenient and has so little understanding of the likely consequences of cell phones in the hands of ten year olds, I should leave and find one that takes these issues more seriously.

Some of my kids' school's parents might be dumb enough to give their children unfettered access to cell phones, but the cultural moires here help protect them from their own folly.[/quote]

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