I know how to keep high school kids from sexting:

[hedgehog]

Don't buy them a cell phone!

Give them 35 cents for the pay phone and be done with it.

[Arugula Latte]

1. Pay phones? Do they even exist anymore?

:shrug:

[hedgehog]

3. I'm not sure if the school still has one or not. But, with me working

to pay off student loans for the older kids, there has never been any question of the younger kids getting cell phones!

Remember the old days, when society worried about kids spending their parents' money on expensive sneakers!

[Midlodemocrat]

20. My kids have cell phones. And, I love being able to get ahold of them

whenever I need to. Especially the one in college.

[Strong Atheist]

4. Yes. Our school has one, and I saw one outside in the last week.

$0.50 for three minutes, btw ...

[Roon]

5. My clinic has courtesy phones

in all the places where payphones used to be.

[trof]

2. There are still pay phones?

Haven't seen one in a while.
Haven't received a 'wire' (telegram) in a long time either.
;-)

[Habibi]

6. Don't buy them a cell phone??

Is that even legal these days?

[Mutley]

7. Don't.

If I had a kid, I'd rather he/she sext than have sex for real.

Anyway, teenagers are always going to find a way to do their thing. Parents should just make sure they know how to stay safe.

Edit: You do mean sexting and not texting, right? :o

[Sky Masterson]

8. Promise phones maybe??

:D

[Orrex]

13. The Silver Ringtone Thing

:rofl:

[tigereye]

9. well, less risk of pregnancy?

just a thought.

[DarkTirade]

10. Aren't pay phones 50 cents now?

[Lost in CT]

11. Yeah I don't think I would want my kids in the kind of neighborhoods that still

have pay phones.

[Chan790]

14. I haven't seen a payphone outside the ones in NYC subway stations in prolly 15 years.

There are none, not a one I tell you, in all of Hartford. I know because I wandered around downtown at 11PM on a Tuesday looking for one when my cell died so that I could get a ride home.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. I can't remember the last time I saw one. Wouldn't even know where to look.

[RoyGBiv]

12. Absolutely ...

And then teenagers can go back to having sex in parked cars on the side of the street as god intended.

[MissMillie]

15. ask your cell phone provider for phones w/o cameras

apparently they do have them... but you have to ask.

[struggle4progress]

16. I thought you were gonna say, "Make it mandatory"

[Midlodemocrat]

21. And grade them on it.

:thumbups:

[stewartcolbert08]

17. Then they will just have cyper sex

on my space and facebook!

[PVnRT]

18. I'm shocked, SHOCKED that horny teenagers would be doing such a thing

[Midlodemocrat]

19. Can you point me to one of these 'pay phones?'

Thank you. And, I think the sexting thing is very very overblown. It's definitely not a big deal here.

[mikeytherat]

25. Exxon station near corner of Janke and Bliley. I saw someone using it a few days ago.

mikey_the_rat

[Midlodemocrat]

26. Is that closer to you or me?

[mikeytherat]

27. Much closer to me. But you don't see many working payphones these days.

mikey_the_rat

[PeaceNikki]

23. BRILLIANT! Not giving them cell phones will keep them pure as the driven snow!

[struggle4progress]

24. Hey! My friends and I didn't have cell-phones! And we were saints!

We respected our elders when we thought they deserved respect; we tried very hard not to get caught doing things the authorities would frown upon; and whenever plans backfired we were always grateful we were still alive

QED