I went to school before the popularity of cell phones, I have to say I'm a bit Jealous of todays teens. Also, shame on you kids.

via a test messages--called "sexting"

So it's now against school rules AS WELL as it having already been illegal and generally felt to be amoral. I'm not sure how much this will really affect, but if it keeps one immature kid off of the sex offender list, I'm all for it.

call me old fashioned... but i still don't understand why school children even need a cell phone with a camera on it much less a cell phone at all. never needed them before and have yet to see a valid reason for them yet.

It's all for the children!

So much for actual parenting, let society raise the kids!

damn children soliciting kiddy p0rn...leave it for the dirty 50 year old men!!!

But how can they enforce this rule in the school without banning all text messaging all together? Do they have to look through all text messages sent from cell phones located on campus? or they just have to put this job on the teachers or setting up the spying/reporting systems amount the students?

I like the idea behind it... but how are they going to enforce it?

When I was in highschool in the 90's, all pagers and cell-phones were just banned from the classroom, period. If one went off during class, it was confiscated and only returned to a parent or guardian. What ever happened to that?

During the day, the school is legally rsponsible for your children, so there's no reason any kid needs a cell phone so parents can "get ahold of them in emergencies". If it's an emergency, the school will contact the parent, or the parent can contact the school. Kids are already dumb enough, they don't need phones distracting them when they should be learning.

I don't see how they can ban any aspect of texting or cell phone usage at all. In fact, they only thing they can legally do is say, no cell phones at school. Even then, they are on dubious legal grounds. The cell phone is the personal possession of the student and the teachers have no legal right to search them. A student who drives to school can have a cell phone in his/her car even if the school says you can't have them. They can't dictate what you can and can not have in your own car. Finally, a teenager with nude photos of themself on their phone can't realistically be charged with possession of child porn since they, themself, are a member of the so-called "protected class."

How old are you?

Banned through texting only eh? Makes you wonder how that video stream or picture managed to cram itself into ascii characters.

Teenage boys posting semi-nude or nude? omg, get a life.

They can absolutely tell you what you can/cannot have in your car! Don't think so? Try to bring a legal shotgun or rifle and leave it in your car, see how that works out. On school grounds your rights don't really exist, of course if you are under the age of 18 you don't really have rights anyway.

Well, it depends on where you live, of course. I live in New Mexico. The car is an extension of the home (as it should be). So if you can legally own a gun, you can legally carry it in your car. That not withstanding, a cell phone is not a gun. They can ban cell phones in school, but if a kid is driving him or herself to school, and they have a cell phone in their car, there isn't a damn thing the school can do about it. Even if it is on the dashboard.

Second, if you think kids under 18 don't have rights, try locking up your teenager in their room against their will and go tell the cops about it, see how that works out.

Bingo!

How will they know? Short of violating your personal privacy.

So by thier rules, you can get somone kicked out by sending them naked random pictures without them asking for them!

Nice going!

Rofl, you sound like one of those punkass "know-it-all" kids. I'm guessing you're in highschool. Guess what junior, you're not as smart as you think you are. Wait until you get booted out on your ass into the real world, then people like me will eat you alive.

IronRyan21: i'm in my early 30s and went to skool in the 80s and 90s... are you going to try to make a point that cell phones are somehow now a right? or that children require a method to call anyone at anytime? i'll buy the argument that if a parent wishes their child to have one, so be it, but school is not the place for it and if they have to be without it for a few hours, tough. school is about learning and one of the things they have to learn is that you're not always able to do whatever you want whenever you want... someone said that school administrators have no right to search you while on campus and that just goes to show you the level of stupidity some parents have and the belief that their child has rights above all others... and people wonder why children run wild at school and come out total retards...

rofl @ legal system. the rights system is so ass backwards anyway... i ur underage u can kill someone and get charged as an adult, but u cant drink because supposedly kids dont have the mentality for alcohol, but i was out in the bars here in germany at age 13 and never did anything dumb enough to get arrested or harm anyone. This is power tripping authority control to the max...

""Aside from those factors, devices containing said material could potentially violate child pornography laws.""

Potentially?
I am pretty certain if you receive a nude pic from your girlfriend who’s under 18 (regardless of your age) its child porn....

I have spoken to my son about nude pis already, namely if he receives any, DONT show anyone! And of course... don’t take them of yourself as some Skank could show them around (just like every teen male/female will).
I personally believe cell phones should remain in your locker during school hours. There is just no way any teacher will ever catch a kid having pics on his phone unless said teacher violates the students rights and goes through the phone. If a teacher confiscated my phone and browsed through It, I would QUICKLY find her/his and do the same. Also… It’s called a password, teach your kids to use it.

There is a time and place for everything... school is not the best place to be checkin your GF's beaver.

You're retarded. After making general statements like that, you are really going to call someone out for being a punkass "know it all" kid? LOL

I'm from Houston and when I was in high school, the cell phones were to be turned off and put away.

Which should be the rule in every school.

What constitutes semi-nude? Male with no shirt? Girl in bikini (or underwear would be the same really)?

Semi-nude is just so, unclear.

I'm 25, and when I was in HS EVERYONE had a cell phone. Back then (7-11 years ago), the popular thing to do was to get new custom face plates and such for our phones, since smart phones didn't really exist yet, like they do now. But, text messaging, and picture messaging did exist... even a little web browsing.

When I was in HS use of phones in class would result in temporary confiscation of the phone. Texting wasn't all that popular yet, and in my circle of friends considered something that mainly only diva girls did. Nobody would have been stupid enough to send a naked picture of themselves in a text message... and when we witnessed the birth of Myspace most of us shrugged our shoulders.

Kids now are so into text messaging and social networks, its fucking annoying. I was trying to date this girl who's 21 (I was thinking with the wrong head, so sue me), and one night trying to read a book while she constantly texted me, I had a moment where I felt really really sorry for kids right now (genuine pity here). Time to relax and collect your thoughts is important for mental health!

"call me old fashioned... but i still don't understand why school children even need a cell phone with a camera on it much less a cell phone at all. never needed them before and have yet to see a valid reason for them yet."
They don't need a cell phone. Children have cell phones because they want them and that is the only reason with few other exceptions.

Someone can't read. I didn't call anyone anything there genius.

And you don't have full legal rights as a minor.

My kids will hate me, they will never have cell phones in school, even if they pay for them by themselves. Dumbest idea in the world. I was distracted enough by my TI-92 and TI-85, but at least I had to learn how to put another OS on them to play my games Learning, it's a wonderful thing.

I don't know what country your from but in the USA your car absolutely is private property no matter if your on school grounds or anywhere else. No one has any right to search it except the police, and even they need probable cause. If the school could see the gun through the window they could call police but if it was hidden under the seat or in the trunk they cant search for it without probable cause.

A students cell phone is also private property. As soon as this school tries to search a students phone they will be sued by the student with support of the ACLU. The school will lose and cost taxpayers millions. The school could try to ban cell phones but that's shaky legal ground and would never be accepted by parents in this era of columbine type incidents.

Basically this is misguided feel good legislation. The real answer is parents teaching morals. Children DO have rights, the only ones who can approve of over riding them to search private property are the parents or police.

No body, has rights any more period.

Wow, not only do you make an incorrect guess based on your personal bias, you then compound your mistake by proceeding from a false assumption. In point of fact, I'm 40 years old. I have six children, four of whom are teenagers (none of whom sext or even think about it). I am a big advocate of privacy rights. In the case of those under 18, I believe they also have a right to privacy, subject to the determinations of the parents. By that I mean, it is MY job to monitor what my kids do, NOT the government (and by extension, the school system). Parents that don't monitor their children appropriately are the problem, not that the school isn't intruding far enough into their personal affairs.

I am alarmed at the number of people who seem to agree with those who feel that those under 18 have no rights. While I acknowledge that teenagers can be headstrong an obnoxious (and, damnit, if they would just listen to those who have already been there, it would save them a lot of headache... but I digress), to suggest that they have no rights is to relegate them to the class of property. And I find it hard to believe that anyone here honestly feels this way.