IPS B.S. takes a hard-line approach to this type of behavior and any student caught sexting should be arrested and charged with distributing obscene material. There is no reason for this kind of behavior to be in school and if a few people start going to jail, everyone else would get the message.
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Both IPS policy and state law prohibit cell phones in public schools. If IPS had the leadership to support that, then this would not be a problem.
ReplyDeleteIPS law and IPS policy do not prohibit cell phones in school. Here is the policy which was passed by the board.
ReplyDeleteBYLAWS AND POLICIES
Book:
BYLAWS AND POLICIES
Section:
5000 STUDENTS
Title:
CELLULAR TELEPHONES AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES
Number:
5136
Status:
Active
Legal:
Adopted:
05/15/2007
Last Revised:
Last Reviewed:
Policy Detail
Student possession of telephone paging devices (e.g., beepers or pagers) is prohibited on school grounds, at school sponsored events, and on school buses or other vehicles provided by the Corporation. Students may not use cellular telephones, including camera phones, or other electronic communication devices (ECDs) (e.g., personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other devices designed to receive and send an electronic signal) during the school day. Cellular telephones and ECDs must be kept out of sight and turned off (not just placed in vibrate or silent mode) during the school day. In addition, students are not permitted to use cellular telephones, including camera phones, or ECDs to record/store/send/transmit the spoken work or visual image of any person, including other students or staff members, or educational instrument/document (e.g., test, quiz, etc.) any time while on school property or at a school-sponsored event. Finally, students may not use cellular telephones or ECDs on school property or at a school-sponsored activity to access and/or view Internet web sites that are otherwise blocked to students at school.
The Board is not responsible for preventing theft, loss, damage, or vandalism to cellular telephones or ECDs brought onto its property.
Students may use school phones to contact parents/guardians during the school day.
Check the Indiana code, there is no prohibition against cell phones at school.
The policy clearly states you may possess them at school, and use them to call your parent.
This is a symptom of the problem with IPS, my current administrator is not aware of this policy.
ReplyDeleteIt was not communicated to the administration, I only knew because I read the board minutes.
If the current cell phone policy were enforced as written, then there would be no need to discuss sexting at the Board meeting.
ReplyDeleteCell phones should be turned off and placed out of sight while on school property. This is not enforced consistently among teachers and among administrators.
Some teachers pretend they don't see the cell phones in class; moreover, some administrators do not deal with those students who do have cell phones out and in plain sight.
I post an exact copy of the School Board's policy on electronic devices on my class bulletin board. In fact, we (the students and I) read the policy aloud at the beginning of the year. This prevents a lot of student griping and complaining when I tell them to turn their cell phones off and to put them out of sight. They know it's not just 'my rule', but rather, a district-wide rule.
I take any I see, and turn them in to the office, they are not to be visible. If they are seen they violate the rule.
ReplyDeleteWe have already received information about sexting, go back in you e-mail and you will find this e-mail and an attachment that explains the legal aspects of this.
>>> Eugene White 4/25/2009 2:43 PM >>>
Mary Louise,
I want the information from Dave Emmert sent to every administrator and teacher in the District. FYI
Dr. Eugene G. White, Superintendent
120 E. Walnut St. Room 702 A
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
>>> "Carol Opp" 4/24/2009 10:43 AM >>>
From: Carol Opp [mailto:copp@isba-ind.org]
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:38 AM
To: copp@isba-ind.org
Subject: ISBA Legal Services Information
April 24, 2009
TO: School Board Members, Superintendents, and School Attorneys
FROM: David Emmert
RE: Criminal Legal Implications of Sexual Content on Student Cell Phones
Attached is a brief memo that outlines the serious criminal issues involved when school officials learn that a student's cell phone contains certain sexual content, including the legal duty to report to law enforcement or child services, and if a court determines the offense is "child exploitation," the requirement that the student's name be placed on the Indiana sexual offense registry (even if the student is still a juvenile).
You are urged to give students and parents notice of these realities in an effort to deter such cell phone use.
David Emmert
General Counsel
Indiana School Boards Association
One North Capitol
Suite 1215
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317-639-0330, ext. 107
Fax: 317-639-3591
demmert@isba-ind.org
The problem is now that who can trust or believe anything that we receive with Mary Louis Bewley's name on it.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious to know how many teachers have taken a cell phone and turned it over to an administrator who returned it to the student with no consequences.
ReplyDeleteWhen they are taken. Students can pick them up at the end of the day on the way home at my southside school. So they wind up back in the classroom again the next day.
ReplyDeleteAnd if your SBDM enacts a policy that cell phones and other electronics will only be returned at the end of the year, and to a parent, and that parent calls Dr. White and complains, he will undermine your principals and SBDM and tell him/her to give it back.
ReplyDeleteJust like your principal undermines your authority, the superintendent and his minions undermine school based administration. And in the same way your own adminitrators never seem to agree exactly what you are suppose to do, the minions all have their own opinions, which they cite as IPS policy. When they say this check the policies which are on line.
IPS administration putting the fun in dis"fun"ction!
"I'm curious to know how many teachers have taken a cell phone and turned it over to an administrator who returned it to the student with no consequences"
ReplyDeleteI've ceased worrying about what administration does or doesn't do, it will make you crazy. They allow certain people to ignore policies. They don't communicate policies to everyone affected, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Decide what you are going to do and do it. I really try to follow the rules that I am told to enforce.
The students tell me I am the only one enforcing these rules and when I stand in the hall and watch hundreds of kids go by with pants down, untucked, the wrong color, wearing hoodies, and without ID's I know they must be telling the truth.
Our principal doesn't even know the ID machine hasn't worked for two out of the last three days, and that all classes haven't been processed through the bookstore. He sent out an e-mail that we were to write up everyone without an ID, that would be 185 students for me to write up.
Free meals, free transportation, free coats, free backpacks, free shoes, free health care, free housing, free books, free uniforms ..........Donation boxes for food, school supplies, school uniforms? Why not cell phones for students?
ReplyDeleteLet's get all our kids cell phones! Seems like there must be a federal, state, local, or district subsidy for that, or a religion-based organization who will fill this need!
I admire the groups that supply 911-enabled phones for those in abuse situations.
I wonder if a cell company could program a phone with only 911 and parent numbers in its outgoing abilities?
As for the 13-year-old Marshall student involved in last year's incident, grandparent wasn't outraged about the sex, only that it was recorded and distributed.
What did we do without them? I'm guilty of driving five miles back home after neglecting to pick mine up.
"I'm curious to know how many teachers have taken a cell phone and turned it over to an administrator who returned it to the student with no consequences"
ReplyDeleteI've ceased worrying about what administration does or doesn't do, it will make you crazy. They allow certain people to ignore policies. They don't communicate policies to everyone affected, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Decide what you are going to do and do it. I really try to follow the rules that I am told to enforce.
The students tell me I am the only one enforcing these rules and when I stand in the hall and watch hundreds of kids go by with pants down, untucked, the wrong color, wearing hoodies, and without ID's I know they must be telling the truth.
Our principal doesn't even know the ID machine hasn't worked for two out of the last three days, and that all classes haven't been processed through the bookstore. He sent out an e-mail that we were to write up everyone without an ID, that would be 185 students for me to write up.
YOU KNOW YOUR LAZY ASS AIN'T DOING SHIT. I BET YOU ARE AFRAID OF THE STUDENTS. LYING ASS PUNK! "I'm the only one teaching, but my students can't pass the ISTEP exam."
"The students tell me I am the only one enforcing these rules and when I stand in the hall and watch hundreds of kids go by with pants down, untucked, the wrong color, wearing hoodies, and without ID's I know they must be telling the truth. "
ReplyDeleteI'm SUPER TEACHER and I am the best in the WEST!
IPS TEACHERS SUCK BIG TIME
ReplyDeleteWarning Administrative Troll posting!
ReplyDeletewhen i grow up i want to be a ips teacher - not
ReplyDeletePerhaps we need a Hoosier attorney to cipher this policy through. Know any good barristers?
ReplyDeleteSo sad! What do we need to do to remedy these problems....so many problems?! We are educated minds! Please, solutions not complaints. We "get" the problems. What can we do??? Why do teachers "roll over?" We talk about the business "model." No one in business, that I know, would put up with the problems, administrative and student generated, that IPS teachers endure!!!!
ReplyDeleteGetting rid of Eugene White would be the first major action to remedy these problems.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, this all started with Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954. YOU CAN'T LEGISTLATE MATTERS OF THE HUMAN HEART including prejudice and racism so the white flight started and continues.........
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I am white, and I am an IPS grad, and I am a college graduate, and I taught in the system TWICE!
Until all human beings quit worrying about skin color and begin to be responsible adults who CHOOSE to have children and raise them properly, the problems will continue!
And guess what.........rural and suburban school systems have the same kinds of problems as IPS. The media just doesn't cover them!
So, parents, look in the mirror and see the solution to the problem!