By Brian Beutler
I only mention this because I heard it discussed at a New America Foundation event, and now that I'm reading about it in the New York Times, I figure it's turning into one of those heavily over-exaggerated trend pieces about "kids these days" run amok, and should be properly dispelled.
In classes at Trinity [School in Manhattan] and elsewhere, some students have begun testing the boundaries of their new technology.
How's THAT for imprecise language.
See, when I was in high school, we had this figured out: Put your cell phone on silent, and just check it periodically. It made for perfectly seamless text-message conversations, which I always kind of thought of as the electronic equivalent of throwing crumpled notes across the class when the teacher wasn't looking. The challenging part was typing out a message that was appropriately flirtatious and sending it off before Mr. Killjoy turned back from the chalkboard (or in my case whiteboard) and saw you punching away below your desk. There's just no need for this ultrasonic mumbo jumbo, which actually seems to make the chances of getting caught much greater. So there you have it.
