Not only are people with disabilities an issue, there are quite simply a lot of things that have to be hauled up and down the stairs. Do you want to carry a photocopier up two flights or would you rather someone thought ahead and put in an elevator?

wouldve told em to get fuked

Go back to the elevator and check the maintenance certificate, if it is out of date, as they frequently are, you have a major lawsuit on your hands, you'll be able to get yourself a much nicer phone.

Are people aware that you can usually just pry the doors open even if the elevator is stuck between floors?

I doubt that the elevator would have been left unchecked for all that long. It just doesn't seem like an emergency situation to me. Typical teenage impatience followed by crying. Typical bitchy meddling school hags who live for their powertripping, as if it makes a real difference in the world whether or not a cell phone was used in an elevator at school. It all sounds so 'run of the mill' to me. :p

O WOW THT MAKES NO SENSE

lol pleasetryagain you went to stuy? i go there now

I HATE high schools and all their retarded rule sets. Who gives a shit if your students are using their cell phones between class or at lunch? Who gives a shit if they pop off a quick text even in class? Seriously. Their education is on them and you don't need to make up a crap ton of arbitrary rules just to be assholes to your students with. As long as they aren't disturbing the class or the school, leave them alone.

Were you allowed to be in the elevator in the first place? If it's a faculty/handicapped-only elevator, and you were sneaking in, I could certainly see them punishing you for it. if you were allowed to be using the elevator, then it's definitely a case of someone punishing you just out of spite. Obviously, it was an emergency situation, and any normal, sane person would see that. Back when I was in high school, it was the same way - most teachers were reasonable, but some would enforce the most pointless rules just because they could.

this is fake. no way they would give you two detentions for using a cell phone in a elevator.