Ever text your friends while sitting in class while your teacher mentions something about something somewhere nobody really cares about? Don’t. Well, just don’t get caught. You may get it confiscated, that is, if you attend Kearny High School in Kearny, Nebraska. If you don’t, be not surprised if your school, or your kid’s school, establishes the same kind of ban soon, if it hasn’t already.
Rules prohibiting cell phone use are in place in many college class rooms but the specifics of those rules vary by professor or instructor and violations range from a grimacing look to a deduction in points or the extreme case of being kicked out of class. Colleges can’t be as authoritarian as high schools and can’t confiscate them as Kearny’s henchmen will but you can bet plenty of professors would like to. Kearny’s cell phone prohibition is another example of how cell phones and their use are affecting the established order of things. Officials at Kearny call it a distraction. Perhaps it is. The relatively new culture of mobile phone use is clashing with how things use to be. The product of this collision is still in the making and is yet to be seen.
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