There is one major issue with that kind of sentiment -- kids will always find a way to avoid getting caught.
Whether it was smoking in an upstairs bathroom or under the bleachers, having sex in a band closet or in an unused 3rd floor classroom, kids are always going to find a way.
I'll tell you this from person experience, my niece had her texting traffic tracked by her father for the length of a month. During a single five week period, she used over three-thousand outgoing text messages, about 80% of which were during school hours or after her curfew. He took care of that by taking her phone from her at night to charge it. But, his wife made him give her the phone during school hours for emergencies. I was blown away that she could text that much in a month, let alone, mostly at school. She told me, she just puts her hand under or in her desk, all she has to do is read in the incoming messages. Everything else, she can do blindly, pushing beyond 100 words per minute, all without a full keyboard. She barely has to think to respond, she does it in class, and asserts that she does in fact pay attention.
She gets good grades, too. Although, I am not sure of the standards of a modern American high school.
The moral of the story is... if you can't find a better way to stop them using rules, since they'll always find ways to break them... why not go with the alternative, and just prevent them from doing it in the first place. Schools responded to smoking on campus by using doors that lock closed upon closing and installed sensitive smoke detectors in bathrooms. Ultimately, you can't employ enough educators to catch every student breaking a rule, and there is no way, in today's world, to enforcement those rules to a point where they would actually prevent recurrence. Parents and Administration are simply too lax and lazy.
Isn't a terrorist robot just a mentally handicapped person strapped with explosives... or am I not being technical enough? If it qualifies, then Al'Qaeda in Iraq is already light years ahead of the United States in "strapping explosives to retards" technology.
Isn't that always the way it works? Someone else taunts it, dumps agro, and somehow the guy being civil gets critically struck. Talk about being a tank in a bad situation. Seriously. Do not PUG San Francisco Zoo . . . there is no group rez.
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There is one major issue with that kind of sentiment -- kids will always find a way to avoid getting caught. Whether it was smoking in an upstairs bathroom or under the bleachers, having sex in a band closet or in an unused 3rd floor classroom, kids are always going to find a way. I'll tell you this from person experience, my niece had her texting traffic tracked by her father for the length of a month. During a single five week period, she used over three-thousand outgoing text messages, about 80% of which were during school hours or after her curfew. He took care of that by taking her phone from her at night to charge it. But, his wife made him give her the phone during school hours for emergencies. I was blown away that she could text that much in a month, let alone, mostly at school. She told me, she just puts her hand under or in her desk, all she has to do is read in the incoming messages. Everything else, she can do blindly, pushing beyond 100 words per minute, all without a full keyboard. She barely has to think to respond, she does it in class, and asserts that she does in fact pay attention. She gets good grades, too. Although, I am not sure of the standards of a modern American high school. The moral of the story is ... if you can't find a better way to stop them using rules, since they'll always find ways to break them ... why not go with the alternative, and just prevent them from doing it in the first place. Schools responded to smoking on campus by using doors that lock closed upon closing and installed sensitive smoke detectors in bathrooms. Ultimately, you can't employ enough educators to catch every student breaking a rule, and there is no way, in today's world, to enforcement those rules to a point where they would actually prevent recurrence. Parents and Administration are simply too lax and lazy.
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Isn't a terrorist robot just a mentally handicapped person strapped with explosives ... or am I not being technical enough? If it qualifies, then Al'Qaeda in Iraq is already light years ahead of the United States in "strapping explosives to retards" technology.
Isn't that always the way it works? Someone else taunts it, dumps agro, and somehow the guy being civil gets critically struck. Talk about being a tank in a bad situation. Seriously. Do not PUG San Francisco Zoo . . . there is no group rez.