90 Lashes for a Cell Phone in Class + Prison - Literally

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 3:41PM
Justin Bathon in Discipline, Governance, Instructional-Issues, International, Saudi Arabia, Technology & Internet, lashes for cell phone

Sounds like a joke, doesn't it? 

It's not. 

And, it happened in a country we are closely allied with, Saudi Arabia. 

Why do we ... ? Oh, never mind I guess, I think we all already know the answers here.  

The upside though? One less county our students are going to have to compete with in the future. I guess they don't bother to stop and think about what happens when the oil runs out. 

h/t @stevejmoore    

Article originally appeared on The Edjurist - Information on School and Educational Law (http://edjurist.com/).