School Wants To Ban iPods
One U.S. school official may have inadvertently found the solution to the sales slump in record music.
Torrington, CT school superintendent Christopher G. Leone wants to stamp out digital music players at the local high school. Leone recently told the school board he believes iPods likely outnumber the students. "I just don't see the need," Leone wold the Republican American newspaper. "If we had a technology program that was using mp3 players, which we're nowhere near, that would make sense".
Imagine how sales would soar if Leone and others could turn teenagers listening to music into a subversive activity.
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FLASH: Schools try to ban distracting gadgets from the school day!!
This isn’t exactly Hot News. When I was a sprout, schools had bans on transistor radios, and I remember kids sneaking them in so they could listen to daytime World Series games on headphones.
this would probably lower sales in music, not raise them.
My high school didn’t allow Mp3 players…I thought it was the norm!
considering that i went to torrington high school *graduated last year, 09’* every year the school trys to ban something new, such as our cell phone ban, and now this…..
the school can ban whatever they want, but theres a few problems…..
1. the kids will still bring them in and use them, theres only about 3 security officers in the school who would take them away
2. the teachers dont care. if you’re in a study hall, 90% of the teachers in that school could care less what you’re doing as long as you’re not causing a problem. and if that means texting or listening to an ipod, they let you.