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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2015-11-15 03:37 pm
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classism! discrimination against technological late adopters!

My parents just got a phone call from the high school. Highlight: All students in grades 9-12 (read: all students) are to something something pledge to graduate, and are thus permitted to bring their cell phone to English class (all students are required to be in an English class) for purposes of signing the pledge.

My high-school-age sister hasn't got a cell phone of ANY description. Never mind a phone with Internet access!
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[personal profile] jelazakazone 2015-11-15 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
What??? I mean, why do they need to use a cell phone to sign this thing? It doesn't make any sense to me.

My kids, ages 10 and 13, will not be getting phones any time soon and when they do, they will have stupid flip phones, which I assume wouldn't help with this signing issue.
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[personal profile] crystalpyramid 2015-11-16 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Are they assuming the cell phone is a smart phone or is there some way you can sign electronically with a regular phone?
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[personal profile] silveradept 2015-11-16 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Ipe. If the school wanted to know how many students didn't have cell phones, they could have just asked.
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[personal profile] untonuggan 2015-11-16 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
uuuuugh

sympathies and hammer of angry feminism for the school system
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