Hard Core Cell Phone Parent Takes on Texas

Why I’m a Sometimes a Pro-American Jerk

This teens phone will be confiscated in the next two minutes by her history teacher [Photo by freestocks on Unsplash]

Have I gone off deep end when it comes to my American rights? Am I too protective of my children’s rights? I fear I must outsource the answer to you, dear reader, for your comments. Here’s the issue: my daughter’s teacher asked for her earbud because she was caught listening (allegedly) to music piped in through her Apple Watch. Should she have turned it over to him when he asked?

I say NO, Never, viva la Revolution! You see, I’m talking a bit about nutso. I almost gave him a piece of my foundational advice. He is an American History teacher, so he should be able to bear and appreciate me teaching my daughter not to give up her protection of her basic natural rights. Yet why does it make me sound crazy, and makes me feel like people think I am for complaining? What is the normal reaction when the government seizes your twelve-hundred-dollar apple cellphone and earbuds?

Thank goodness I didn’t answer his email. My wife did and said, ‘Yes sir, we will speak to her.’ I draft a message that I deleted that said (I’m paraphrasing here): You as a government representative, a teacher, a public servant, cannot seize my property or my daughter’s property. It is unreasonable search and seizure. This was passed in the Virginia Bill of Rights under Madison in 1776 and put into the Constitution.