Please be advised: If the following doesn’t convince you of the importance of giving your child a cell phone and text messaging privileges, I don’t know what will.
Between classes I try to stand at my classroom door to monitor the hallway, where much drama tends to happen. For example, since students are not allowed to use their phones in school, I’ve been able to overhear what they might otherwise text to each other:
One boy, while digging in his locker, to his friend: “Hey! Come here a minute!”
The friend: “I’m going to be late for class. Yeah?”
The boy: “I just wanted to say, ‘Wassup.'”
The friend: “Oh, okay.”
The boy: “Wassup?”
The friend: “Nothing.”
The boy: “Me, neither.”
The friend: “Well, I’ve got to go.”
The boy: “Talk to you later.”
