{"id":3030,"date":"2008-01-03T06:46:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T14:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/dont_ask_dont_tell_dont_text_too.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:28:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:28:42","slug":"dont_ask_dont_t_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/dont_ask_dont_t_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell, Don&#8217;t Text, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the mayor should return from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/68860\">all that campaigning<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01032008\/news\/regionalnews\/teachers_hanging_up_on_cellphone_ban_600005.htm\">get this straightened out<\/a>*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Department of Education appears to be taking a &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; approach to its ban on students bringing cellphones into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Administrators at public middle and high schools have loosened the city&#8217;s ban on cellphones &#8212; as long as the gadgets are hidden, students and principals told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Principals said that even before a City Council bill that prohibits interfering with a student&#8217;s right to carry a cellphone to and from school recently went into effect, it was &#8220;close to impossible&#8221; to enforce the ban.<\/p>\n<p>One Queens middle school principal, who asked for anonymity because she was bucking the ban, said her students can bring their phones as long as they&#8217;re turned off.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*It obviously undermines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogher.com\/chicken-vs-fish-nyc-student-cell-phone-ban-and-mayor-bloomberg\">his earlier hardline position<\/a> &#8212; not good for a presidential candidate who needs to appear tough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the mayor should return from all that campaigning to get this straightened out*: The Department of Education appears to be taking a &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; approach to its ban on students bringing cellphones into the classroom. Administrators at public middle and high schools have loosened the city&#8217;s ban on cellphones &#8212; as long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}