A group of New York City parents is suing the city’s Department of Education over a law that bans students from carrying cell phones in schools.
The suit argues the ban is too broad and violates the parents’ “due process to personal liberty” because it “interferes with the relationship between parents and their children, without a compelling education reason for doing so.” No idea what that means.
The bottom line: Parents want their kids to carry cell phones for safety reasons, mostly when traveling to and from school. School officials say cell phones in school are disruptive.
The New York Times reports: “From the end of April to the end of school in June, police confiscated more than 3,000 cellphones in random searches at schoolhouse doors.”
Parents are now resorting to sneaking the cell phones in kids’ backpacks.
