Schools Banning ipods?

I found this article to be not only very interesting, but not much to my suprise. The reason I am not too shocked that schools want to band certain devices is because when I was in High School (an all girl high school), they went to extreme limits to make sure we couldn't cheat.

For instance:

• Our uniform shirt had pockets on them. Girls were making "cheat sheets", putting them in their pockets, and by leaning over the desk in a certain way, could see the sheet.
• Water Bottles : Peal off the seal that goes around the bottle, place the cheat sheet in it, replace the seal. When your bottle of water was on the desk, you could see right into it.

What did my school do? Changed the uniform shirts to have no pockets, beverages and any food had to be placed in our bags and put under pur desk, and our teachers made us place our cell phones in a box at the beginning of the test period.

See why I'm not suprised? Been there, done that.

"Sometimes it takes awhile for teachers and administrators, who come from an older generation, to catch on to the various ways the technology can be used." This is going to be an issue until our generation is in the field because we know all of the tricks, will be aware up new technology, and will know how students can cheat using their devices.

I personally see nothing wrong with schools banning ipods from school because although students who are desperate will find other ways to cheat, this is one of the most easy ways to do it. It's unfortunate that students won't have their music to listen to when they have down time such as Kelsey Nelson mentioned, but I am sure students will find other things to do when they have free time.