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Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other. Now, schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device.

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Harbeas
April 27, 2007, 1:01 p.m.
All student owned electronic devices should be banned from the schools. School is a place for learning and listening to music or talking on a cell phone is not part of learning. Obviously, according to this article, we are not doing a good job on the ethics or mmorality issues.
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dandt1612
April 27, 2007, 1 p.m.
You are so right.
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KSUmarksman
April 27, 2007, 2:18 p.m.
wrong, schools are banning ipods to indotrinate kids into being used to being subjects rather than responsible citizens. Just training new sheeple, since the government prefers sheeple to real citizens.
If a student is listening to music instead of the teacher (and not disrupting the rest of the class) it is their bad choice and their grades will reflect poor decision making.
One must keep in mind that most of school time is not spent listening to lectures but rather doing busy work. At home I often listen to music when I study or work on an assignment, it helps to relax me and I actually get more done than if I were sitting in silence.
Often I will bring my I-pod (before that it was a CD player) to labs (as I am now in college and not in the fascist public school system). Hell in my inorganic chemistry lab the T.A. would actually bring a radio and put music on (music that everyone could agree to of course, so no gansta-rap-crap)
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ballbuster2
April 27, 2007, 3:34 p.m.
sounds like the school system is finally waking up and have decided to do the right thing, taking back the power as teachers and putting the students in their right place. good luck!!, but, i think the parents of many of these students will file discrimination suites in behalf of their CHILD bla, bla, bla. too, i do not believe many of these parents realize that a large percentage of todays youth can not read, do math and therefore, can not even pass collage level entrance exames. what a mess our nations education system is in.
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Mowens1984
April 27, 2007, 4:21 p.m.
I understand why they want to ban the iPods and whatnot... but the thing is, most of those bum kids who are idiotic enough to cheat on a test using an iPod probably aren't going to amount to much in their lives anyway...
Banning them from cheating really won't hinder or help these types of people. In the long run, they won't study and they won't know what they're doing once they hit college or the real world.
They shoot themselves in the foot whether they are able to cheat or not. There's no way to win with those types.
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Harbeas
April 27, 2007, 5:24 p.m.
As to cell phones needed in case of an emergency, How did all the past generations ever get by without them? Just fine! Anyone who can listen to music AND study is a very unusual person. You are a rarity, for all of us others,listening to music only hampers our learning. Come on people you mean to tell me you can do without these things while in school? If they were banned you might find you can do without them.
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jumpmaster
April 27, 2007, 5:48 p.m.
Sounds like a case of attention deficit disorder.
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KSUmarksman
April 27, 2007, 5:51 p.m.
my academic performance suggests otherwise
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jumpmaster
April 27, 2007, 5:58 p.m.
Good grades do not mean that someone is smart and a college degree does not mean that someone will make a good employee.
Academic performance and A-D-D are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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NeoWiccan
April 27, 2007, 7:57 p.m.
Well, time to put my two-cents in lol. I believe if ppl what to cheat, let them; it will help weed out the idiots from the intellagent ppl. let's face it; even if they made it to collage (lol) they wouldn't make it too far because it would be "too hard".
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touchofsoul
April 27, 2007, 8:03 p.m.
School is for learning and that is the only thing that they should be focused on when they enter. I read the complaints about the rules that schools come up with, they would not have to if students were responsible or respectable. I can easily see why the U.S. school system is so far down on the chart compared to the rest of the world. THE REST OF THE WORLD STILL COME TO SCHOOL TO LEARN. All of the electronic devices are only destractions that should not be tolerated. (solving a calc 2 problem while listening to music, ooh, that is so responsible)
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Tigra
April 27, 2007, 9:06 p.m.
Kids nowadays cant cut a break at all! The more time elapses, the worst it gets for them. All technology is banned, and now in the NYC area, some malls want to enforce a policy that states anyone under the age of 18 cannot enter a mall without a parent or guardian present. are you freakin' kidding me?! That will only force them to get into trouble elsewhere, doing god knows what if they cant hang in the malls,lol
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teacherlady
April 27, 2007, 9:54 p.m.
As usual, no one is even approaching the subject of what is best for educational purposes.
1st- Public schools in the US were founded with the purpose of promoting literacy, critical thinking, and socialization into responsible citizenship. Read the history.
2nd- Cheating or not... listening in class or not. Schools are a specialized community were limited rights are understood. The supreme court has ruled on the appropriateness of limiting certain civil liberties in schools for the good of the whole.
3rd- YEARS and YEARS of education, pyschological, and cognitive research support the use of certain kinds of music to increase virtually all kind of brain function.
So... why isn't anyone talking about wht is educationally best for the kids?
From the hip- during class work and study hall time, individual listening devices of any kind are helpful. They help kids focus on their own tasks, and the music can stimulate higher level thought process and creativiy.
So there!
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renegade42
April 27, 2007, 9:54 p.m.
I agree to a certain degree that some people are a little too dependent on their pocket electronics but at the same time, they do make life more interesting and keep things more accessibly. As for cheating with this stuff, banning it will not do anything as kids will still bring their stuff to school. Just have an agreement that you can use it during lunch and before and after school and if a teacher sees it then the teacher takes it away. That's a simple compromise and everyone wins.