Quote - Parents responsibility? Maybe to a degree. What about the story recently of a highschool girl taking a picture of herself (her genitals I believe) with her cell phone and sending it to other students?

The way I remember the article, they got her on child porn charges (on herself?!) and plan on bringing similar charges on everyone that recieved the picure. To me this is a system getting out of whack.

Not sure parental responsibility comes into strong play here...even some straight and narrow kids will do stupid things sometimes without being able to explain why they did it.

Of course, Miley Cyrus is probably a different situation altogether.

Just sayin'.

Saying that the parents have no responsibility is a crock of b.s.  1. No one NEEDS a cell phone.  They are a tool, nothing more.  No high-school kid needs one.  When I was in school, and needed to call my parents, the office had a phone.  We used it.  When I was at work, and needed to call my parents, the office had a phone.  We used it.  When I was at a friends' house, and needed to call my parents, they had a phone.  We used it.  I have a cell phone.  I'm 28.  I have text and pix messaging on my phone, and, quite honestly, sometimes I wish I didn't.  Remember back in the day when pretty much not a week went by and some jackass was posting something with a link, and it was to....let's just say it was to a freaking gross image.  Well, those photos have made their way to pix message forwards.  All it takes is for 1 young adult to get one, think it's hillarious (or think that it would be hillarious to send it on), send it to their younger brother/sister, and BOOM, it's all over the school.  
I know quite a few teenagers who have access to cell phones.  They are not allowed to take them inside the school.  They are to leave them in their vehicles.  They have a certain amount of minutes they can use, and then they're cut off for the month.  They don't have camera phones, they don't have text messaging.  Why you would buy a teenager in high school a CAMERA PHONE is beyond me.  Sure, they're fun.  THEY'RE EXPENSIVE.  What happened to making kids work for what they had?  What happened to teaching kids responsibility?

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