Darth Wong wrote:A totally worthless argument since it is impossible to predict how effective or useful that rule will be for every school. Even if it's not worthwhile at one school, it could be totally worthwhile at another. That's why it should be up to each school's administration to decide if it's worthwhile, not you sitting there at your computer.
You really ought to have been generous enough to make this statement earlier, so I could concede the point instead of just saying that my oppinion didn't matter because I'm a minor.
It would have been quite helpful.
I concede that a forum on the internet is a crappy place for deciding how effective a given rule will be.
Darth Wong wrote:Yes. Your misunderstanding of the fact that each school's staff has the right to decide if cell-phones are interfering with their ability to do their jobs. The very idea of deciding here on the usefulness and necessity of such bans for every school in existence is utterly idiotic.
When did I say that they didn't have this right?
I'll concede that the rule could only be shown to be effective or ineffective at a given school, but the talk about the administration making its decisions still is irrelevant to a talk about whether a given rule will be effective or necessary.
You're trying to turn my point into "the school has to justify its shit to me," rather than what I was actually saying, which is "there's no justification of this rule," perhaps because you want it to fit into your pet peeves about children trying to claim more rights than actually exist, and you also seem to be making the mistake of believing that I want to claim the power of administrative authority simply because I contested the actual necessity of a rule.
Since I've pretty much conceded every real point related to the actual debate itself, there's not really anything more to say.
