Regardless of how the mid-day summit meeting goes between the Student Union and Culver City High School administrators over the long-standing ban on cell phones and ipods during break times, one school official says it should not be lifted.
“Nothing has changed since the prohibition was imposed four years ago,” said the woman who insisted on not being identified because — or even though — she knows a wide number of the students.
“The argument by the students that the entire student body has been turned over in the interim — and therefore they deserve a fresh chance — is not impressive.
“Teens are teens. Many — I know, not all — have the same tendencies as the earlier students to spark a recurrence of the problems that brought on the ban in the first place.”
With the entire campus effectively wired for the first time in history, the electronics crackdown in 2006 came when students were warning peers about approaching drug busts and when mobs of students swarmed to fights across the campus as they broke out.
“How do you think the people involved in drug deals connect with each other, by texting,” the woman told the newspaper this morning.
“Who needs that on our campus?
“There is no possible advantage to ending the cell phone ban.
“There is no possible advantage to students, to the school or to the District.
“And obviously there is no educational benefit for students in making a policy change. I hope the administration stands strong.”
