California Considers Expelling Kids for Sexting

The ACLU would protect a students right to have sex in the classroom. I sometimes wonder if they are liberal or Libertarian?

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Military Academies require Integrity. We should expect the same high standards from our Government Officials, Politicians, Businesses, and Students everywhere. Integrity is honesty, superior behavior, clean living, and law abiding. Schools need to teach Integrity to those who are not taught at home. Also teach that swearing is the result of not being able to express oneself clearly. Teach alternate words to express those feelings.

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I just don't understand it. The obsession that most people have with phones, texting, etc. I was at a red light the other day next to a lady who was texting. A driver came up, stopped and then proceded to make a right hand turn. The texting lady then hit the gas and headed into the intersection and nearly got creamed. She then put her car into reverse and backed up to where she was suppose to be................and then continued texting! I understand if you are a doctor that is needed in surgery or something like that. It is just rude to be talking while in the grocery store line, while in a restaurant, movie, etc. It is really not that important evryone know what you are eating for lunch, what color undies you wore that day, etc.
As for kids and cell phones, I think it's rediculous. My kids are either at school, at home, or with a adult which whom I have entrusted them with, all of which have phones and the means of getting a hold of me.
I think we should go back to pay phones. That would eliminate alot of the issues now facing our youngsters and adults. Technology is not always a good thing.

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In my day.. the girls swimteam coach boned half the team.... and now you want to suspend kids for sexting??? Jesus H Christ... this world is really F'd up now..... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I am an adult, a parent and like other adults and parents and work cannot have a cell phone on me or even near me.
And most work places will consider these type of photos or talking as sexually harassment. So I can't understand the big deal

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Simply don't do it and there should be no problem.

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My child takes his phone to school but is not allowed to use it on school grounds other than to call to be picked up early from sports practices. There are very limited areas where the cell phones get reception there anyway. However, we had an episode of sexting and the kids were suspended, not expelled, however, the ones who sent the picture including ones who forwarded it to others were all arrested and charged with sending pornography over a cell phone. Every phone they saw was checked by the resource officer and every kid who still had it on their phone was suspended. If it had been forwarded from that phone, they were charged. It set an example for others at the school of what could happen.

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The cellphone issue is a touchy subject. Both of my older boys didn't get cell phones until they were 16. My daughter is 13 and although the boys didn't like it at first, she now has a cellphone. She is in various after school activities and if she is let out early, I know immediately. If there is any trouble, I know immediately. When she goes over to spend the night at a friends house she has her cell in the event of emergency. However, there are no cells allowed to be carried around at school. If they are caught with thier cellphone it is taken and the parent has to go get it. I'm glad that my daughter has her cell phone. I feel safer letting her do normal everyday things that criminals have now made 'dangerous'. It's dangerous to be in your own front yard in some places! How sad! Sexting is a huge problem and parents need to be checking phones. I randomly would ask my sons for thier phones and went through them. If anything sex wise was on there, iether pic or text they lost thier phone for days. Knowing this one son STILL had sexting on there... he lost his phone for months. A parent needs to do what they need to do to protect thier kids.

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This is one of the issues that makes me hopeful that cell phone use causes brain tumors. Ten years from now, all those morons that walk around with a cell phone glued to their heads will be paying the price. The parents that gave their kids cell phones for anything but emergency communication will be wailing ( they do make cell phones that call 911 and a parent's number ONLY, which is the only kind of cell phone a kid should have.) It will be Darwinism at work - the cell phone idiots will be thinning out.

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you all are a bunch of sheep..yes while I agree that phones shouldnt be allowed to be used in schools(in my catholic hs if we got caught using one it was $20 to get it back, i digress) this whole privacy issue is one more step towards this country becoming a socialist state where the government wants to have a hand in controlling/policeing every aspect of a persons life..also many 'parents' these days are not truly parents, they are adults that happen to have children

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I would agree if they make it very clear what will constitute sexting. For one thing just because I recieve a sex picture doesn't mean I wanted to. You can not punish a student or anyone else for something that he or she has no controll over. One other thing you should not be abl;e to expell a student for this if you do not also get rid of all the congressman and senators for doing the same thing.

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why not just ban the cell phones at school??

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I don't think that punishing these kids is going to help. Instead we need to teach our youth about respecting themselves and others. When you respect yourself you will be more likely to surround yourself we people that respect you too.

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Ridiculous. Better sexting than sex

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hello you all

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Expulsion is harsh, but it might be what we need to do to stop children from distributing child pornography of themselves. This stuff DOES find its way to other people's phones and even gets posted on the internet.

As the article states, though, they will have to be very careful in how they word everything. For example, although Playboy is really not appropriate for kids that age, they should just be suspended if found distributing that, since all of the models are over 18 in there, so it is legal.

Also, it's a difficult decision to state whether or not they can be punished for sexting off school grounds. I'm going to have to say that I think it would have to happen on school grounds for them to get expelled. The taking OR distribution of the pictures, that is.

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A really bad problem that not only presents parents with sexual misbehavior but also promotes cheating on tests too.

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The school district in our area bans students from having phones on AT ALL during school hours. This should take care of sexting while in school. If a kids sends sext messages outside of school, I don't believe the school has a legal leg to stand on. These expelled kids would go to court and the case would be thrown out. I DO believe there should be punishment, like in school detention and the parents should be notified. But, expelling kids would only hurt them....not teach them anything.

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