Well the first day is over! Overall everything went well...

Within 30 minutes of school starting, I heard through the grapevine that one kid was already in the office and was having his/her cellphone taken away. Cell phones are the worst problem ever in high schools right now (followed closely by the ipod fiasco, but thats another post for another night).

Remember "back in the day" when you left class to go to the bathroom and you would sneak by your friends classroom, wait for the teacher to not look at the door, wave/signal to your friend, and minutes later they would join you in the hall/bathroom for a socializing moment? There was a certain art to that, a certain stealthiness, a risk of getting caught, the thrill of sneaking around, etc.

No more.

Now, students leave their class, go into the hall/bathroom and text their friend. The minute the friend feels that lovely sensation of the vibrating cell phone in their pocket, they immediately leave to go to the bathroom, and voila, no stealthiness, no art, no talent whatsoever involved.

Kids these days are lazy. And uninventive. Proving once more that technology can be a crutch...

Ok so maybe I'm over analyzing the situation, but still, the cell phones constantly on is a pain. If I cant text my friends all day, neither can they. And frankly, if you sat and texted all day at work and never did your job, you wouldn't last long at that job would you? Thats what I thought.

But apparently school isnt supposed to resemble the real world (what is that?) and we should let the kids do whatever they want and assume that magically they will have an epiphony and become perfect, law abiding, dutiful, productive citizens on their own.

Riight.