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Schools try to draw the line for wired kids
8/14/2005 | 
Coverage
Jennifer Radcliffe, The Houston Chronicle
'"As classes resume this month, schools across Texas are struggling to create and enforce technology policies that keep pace with today's children — a generation dependent on cell phones, text messaging and digital music players. Educators have written and rewritten the rules to try to manage all the different devices that ring, beep, flash and otherwise distract class. They're also guarding against cheating, theft and inappropriate uses.
Some, such as in the Aldine school district, have opted to prohibit the devices on campus. Others, such as in the Houston Independent School District, allow students to use their cell phones in places that won't disrupt academics, such as hallways or cafeterias.
But with a record 11 million teenagers armed with cell phones, restricting their use has never been tougher. About 45 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds have cell phones, and 33 percent use text messaging, according to a study released last month by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Even e-mail is too slow for today's teens, who prefer instant messaging, the study found."
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