So this is something that happened a year or two ago at my school and I'm worried it might be happening to me. Anyway, at my school, if your phone rings in class, the teacher takes it and gives it to the administration. The administration reads your text messages and writes down any suspicious texts and the names associated with them (this is of course done without the owner's knowledge or consent). A few years ago, a kid I know got his phone taken away and the admin found some marijuana related texts. They pee tested him as well as about 6 other people who were on the phone. All were dirty and got arrested straight out of school. So today one of my friends got his phone taken away. I'm not sure if I am mentioned anywhere in the phone, but he did say that when he went to get it back the principal was pissed and asked him for a few names (none of them mine). So I am just wondering what my options are if something does go down.
sending mj related texts is a rather stupid thing to do in the first place. i couldn't think of a better way to get traced or caught. as for the legality of what they are doing...i'm not a lawyer but it certainly sounds like they are riding a rather fine line between your right to privacy and their right to search you because you're on school property. right to privacy gets a little murky on school grounds.
well the obvious answer is to have your sim pin code turned on and turn your phone off before you give it up. Or else refuse to give them your phone and if persisted walk out of class. They confiscate phones for a week if it rings in my school but most of the teachers dont enforce this, I would never give my phone to them..its my property that I paid for so they can fuck off if they think they can take it for a week...although I got suspended for leaving school
If you wanted to, or if your friend wanted to he could probably get that principal in alot of shit for that, possibly even fired.
I have a lock on my phone so no one can read my texts or even turn my phone on if it is off without the code which I wouldn't give out.
They do have the right to do that, as you are a minor and under their jurisdiction. It might be extremely shitty, but they do have the right. You have few rights as a high school student in America, but at the same time, your punishment isn't near as harsh if you get caught with something, so it's somewhat of a two way street. Just don't send marijuana related texts. Hell, it takes all the fun out of coming up with nifty code words for it when you're in school.
go into your phone and put a pass code on your recent calls,txt msgs, and phone book, everything else shouldn't be very incriminating unless you have taken pics of your friends grow garden or some shit.....but i know at the highschool we went to you pretty much gave up all your rights. It was a rule your phone should be in your locker if its with you at all, not in the class room, so that gave the teachers a right to take it away in class and then its the school's property until you get it back. The bigger problem i've been worried about is the cops doing the exact same thing, they did it to my friend and since then my phone has been locked down. Dont tell anyone your password either!
lol yeah dude learn to put your phone on silent, or at least use the pass code thing. my phones passworded, only when you turn it off though and try to turn it back on. that's really the simplest thing to do if you think passwords are inconvenient everytime you need to read a text. if you do get caught with your phone simply turn it off and give it to the teacher, they won't be able to access anything so who cares.
What they did is illegal. And as for the texting thing, they can't just take your phone and see what you're texting, that is illegal. And as for tracing texts the police would have to do it, and they're only gonna trace big dealers, not some kid with a couple grams of ganja.
give your teacher the phone, but keep the battery your rights in school and out of school are sadly two different things so i dont know.
You have obviously never been to Idaho. A few days ago my neighbor got his small (10 people) party busted. I saw the whole thing. 7 cop cars came in and busted down the fence. They then sent the dogs in and proceded to use tasers on the fleeing teenagers. All of this for some minors drinking in a backyard hot tub. Anyway, the whole text thing is over. School is out and nothing happened so I think I'm safe.
This sounds like bull shit. How can you get arrested in school, for failing a drug test. Failing a drug test isnt illegal. Secondly Fuck schools i know they try to do that and have. Kid in my Homeroom got his taken away and he had pics of shit and stuff like that and the teacher tried to take it from he flipped out and was like ok ill give you it hold on hold on. turned his phone off. If you have any common sence you would use the lock code on your phone, I do, another thing would be take the batter out if you cant get a code. (im sure almost all phones have them) Yeah huge invasion of privacy with out consent but then again you asked for it for using your phone in school. Thats retarded. I dont even use my phone in school its off all day. Texting in school is stupid. and 95% of my school doesnt get reception, so, cant text, and the whole time my phone searches for service and kills the battery.
Wtf that cant be legal. Tasers are for violent people and used for DEFENSE. haha you must live in a small town. 7 cops for 10 people. Shit I live in a small boring town and they would probably only have like 3-4 cops there.
Yeah, i talk about drugs in my texts all the time. What the school did is? Technically yes, but also no. I bet you! somewhere in their rule book its gonna have some fine print about you giving up your rights of privacy or some bs. they will find a way around it or use some excuse. They can search your locker and book bags anytime they want also. But thoes fuckers arent getting in my car!!!!
That's what I was thinking. I've known tons of people who have gotten dirty piss tests. None of them were ever arrested unless they were holding in the first place. Dirty piss test all you have to say is, "I was at a party and some people were smoking." Even if you were, you would have to be driving or some shit before it would be a problem.
My friends and I have codes. If were talking weed, its ass, as in "I really need to get some ass tonight." Shrooms are spagetti, "I'm thinking of making spagetti, wanna come over?" Any pills "I need to pick up my perscription after this." And so on.
haha, yeah you can say that for like an employer drug test, but probation people wont believe it. Its actually really hard to get any in your system from second hand smoke. Fucking... yeah I used to use codes all the time. Weed i just make shit up. we got pop corn, candy, and playing madden, shrooms i like to call them rooms, or quiet rooms (get it shhh-rooms) But my friends who i talk to most about weed are fucking lazy and are just like "dude just fucking say weed" but theyre careless and leave theirphones laying around, which has already happened before. Kids mom saw some IM's he left open (dumbass) and then went through his phone.
Like I was saying, if you're already in trouble, no excuse will help you. I'm a paranoid smoker and I have the ability to make everybody else paranoid, too. So once I start saying shit, everybody's like, "yeah, we better do it like that so we don't get in trouble." I'm like a paranoia monster. I like that, mind if I steal it? I got the spagetti one from my friend who used to sneak shrooms to her husband in prison. That was how he told her he wanted her to bring some to the next visit. He'd say, "I really miss your spagetti."
