Businesses make $4M off NYC students by holding their cellphones during school

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<p>Storing schoolkids’ banned cells is big biz</p>

<p>"The city’s ban on cellphones in schools is taking an amazing $4.2 million a year out of kids’ pockets, a Post analysis has found.</p>

<p>The students — who attend the nearly 90 high schools and middle schools with permanent metal detectors — pay $1 a day to store their phones either in stores or in trucks that park around the buildings.</p>

<p>The cottage industry has become so profitable, it rakes in $22,800 a day from some of the city’s poorest youngsters, whose families would rather shell out the money than risk their children’s safety.</p>

<p>‘I’ve spent at least $500 on that truck over the last few years,’ said Jonathan Lauriano, 18, who attends school on the Columbus HS campus in The Bronx.</p>

<p>‘They should set up free lock boxes inside because we can’t all afford to pay a dollar a day.’ " …</p>

<p>[EXCLUSIVE:</a> Businesses make $4.2M off students by storing their cellphones during school hours - NYPOST.com](<a href=“http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/pay_phones_Z1HD9AO9HmsHoAcNBGD6UP]EXCLUSIVE:”>Businesses make $4M off NYC students by holding their cellphones during school)</p>

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<p>$1 a day??? I’m surprised this is legal!</p>

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<p>I know I wouldn’t be paying a dollar a day. I’m surprised there isn’t an underground operation used to smuggle in phones…</p>

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<p>Wow. The ideas people come up with.</p>

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<p>The story on the local newsradio made it sound like the NYC BOE was pocketing the money; not sure which is worse…</p>

<p>How about the BOE doing this themselves and using the money for teachers??? or something of an educational nature?</p>

<p>To have an outside company making this kind of money off the kids is ludicrous</p>