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Evan,

"There are plenty of legit reasons for that and I did it all the time."

I'd like to hear some of these and your after-school plans don't qualify in the least. Whether or not its a "big deal" to use a cell during lunch or whatever goes back to the common sense thing, but there's no denying that if they make a "no cells" rule, using it to tell your parents you're going over to Kevin's house after school doesn't really exempt you from following the rule.

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Wtf? I didn't say it made him exempt from any rules. Come on man, there's a big difference between breaking rules being a douche, like this.

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Also, IMO, leaving a kid with no phone outside of school for a month poses an unnecessary safety risk.

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Yes, because no one has ever had to go a month without a cell phone. The school has been given no authority to take the kids cell phone. Suspend the kid a day or whatever, but they can't seize property without being given the authority to do so and then they must still give due process.

I hope that guy causes the out of line principal to get canned.

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So if the kid brings smokes, drugs, guns, knives and booze the school can't seize them because it's his personal property?

School grounds are not public grounds where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

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I told my daughter not to hand it over, it's very annoying to have to go up there to retrieve her phone. This is not a moral stance.

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I told my daughter not to hand it over, it's very annoying to have to go up there to retrieve her phone. This is not a moral stance.

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WHy not tell your daughter not to use her phone during school hours intead?

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Wtf possible reason do you need for a phone at school, I don't remember anyone ever having a valid reason for it, it was used to do dumb stuff like turn someones phone on leave it there jacket pocket and ring from another classroom so the teacher yelled at them....

I can't imagine taking or making a call at school, you're only there like 6hrs of the day and if your parents need to contact you they can ring the school and get someone to come find you, like they did for the first 11yrs of my schooling before phones and children became the normal.

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I told my daughter not to hand it over, it's very annoying to have to go up there to retrieve her phone. This is not a moral stance.

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WHy not tell your daughter not to use her phone during school hours intead?

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Brilliant

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I told my daughter not to hand it over, it's very annoying to have to go up there to retrieve her phone. This is not a moral stance.

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WHy not tell your daughter not to use her phone during school hours intead?

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Brilliant

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It seems like that would be the easiest solution. Typically I'm against a lot of the BS rules that schools make, but I this sounds pretty reasonable. However, I think that holding the phone for a month is too long.
I'm assuming this is getting in trouble for using the phone. If they get in trouble because a teacher sees them move it from their pocket to their bag, well that's just dumb.

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I told my daughter not to hand it over, it's very annoying to have to go up there to retrieve her phone. This is not a moral stance.

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WHy not tell your daughter not to use her phone during school hours intead?

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Brilliant

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I missed a sarcasm level there didn't I?

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Wtf possible reason do you need for a phone at school, I don't remember anyone ever having a valid reason for it

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I brought my cell phone to high school because I would often go to work or some friend's house after school

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I'm sure the kid already is a douche. ALL schools should all get cell phone jammers.

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If I was a teacher/professor, everytime your cell phone goes off in class you would lose 5% of your grade or have to write a ten page report.

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My college Business 101 teacher had that rule. (10%) No phones ever rang.