The real crime is not testing the range of his jamming device and limiting its effect to his classroom, much like many restaurants, but of course it's against the law, but legal in
Ukraine schools, damn
those statists, oppressing Academic Freedom!
LAND O' LAKES, Fla. -- A Florida science teacher has been suspended for running a signal jammer to prevent his students from using their cellphones in class.
CBS Tampa affiliate WTSP-TV reports Dean Liptak was trying to get students to focus on lessons instead of their phones.
School board members in Pasco County approved Liptak's five-day, unpaid suspension on Tuesday. Liptak didn't contest the decision.
Officials say Liptak activated the jammer in his Fivay High School classroom from March 31 through April 2.
He later told a school district investigator he never intended to cause problems. He said he thought the jammers were allowed as long as they weren't intended for malicious purposes...
"Verizon had come to the school saying someone had a jamming device, because the cell phone service was being interrupted in the area," WTSP quotew Pasco County School District spokesperson Linda Cobbe as saying.
Cobbe says Liptak's jamming device blocked communication to the cell tower on the Fivay High campus.
ok. the teacher blew it. but at least the school didn't overreact by firing him. neither did verizon overreact by prosecuting him. however, how frustrating it must be to be a teacher and know that your idiotic students are texting their friends and doing all sorts of other things with their phones instead of paying attention to you and to the material. obviously something ought to be done. why not gather the phones at the start of class and put them in a basket? oh.. because one of the student's parents might have a heart attack and the student has to know about it. really? idiotic. the price to pay by letting all the students keep their phones is higher than the price of one student not knowing there is a family emergency. but our society is stupid. we are stupid. parents are stupid. children are stupid. school districts are stupid. and no one, but no one wants to listen to reason.
What happens if you use a jammer? Operation of a jammer in the United States is illegal and may subject you to substantial monetary penalties, seizure of the unlawful equipment, and criminal sanctions including imprisonment.
https://www.fcc.gov/...
Protect the Stochastic Right To Keep and Bear Phone Jamrz! Prosecute Swatters, Not Teachers!
Apparently there's much to worry about in a place called Land O' Lakes