school confiscates cell phone, lawyer dad is mad?

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I have no troubles reading. I will admit the car was a strech, but now that you can realize there are other methods than taking property. I just don't see how you can possibly think that keeping a phone for 30 days is acceptable. Take it for the day and if it keeps up contact the parents, detention, suspension. It's all been said before and I don't understand why it's not that simple.

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You guy's don't get it. I have never argued that keeping the phone for 30 days is the best policy or even a smart policy.

What I have argued that it is acceptable in this case because the violating parties agreed to the rule and were aware of the punishment. (OP mentioned that the Dad wanted to lie to the school about ownership of the phone in order to get it back. He knew the ramifications and was looking for a loophole of some sort.)

I believe most schools would never hold it for 30 days if the parent came in for it. However, I bet that not insignificant percent of the time, the parent will not come in at all, which is why the 30 day policy was put in place.

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I guess we don't really disagree. I don't have a problem with the rule, or with the school taking the phone. I have a problem with the school refusing to return the phone to the parent.

One small thing I do take issue with is your repeated assertion that parents agreed to all the rules by choosing to send their kid to that particular school. I don't know if things are different now, or maybe it depends on the part of the country, but I was always under the impression that what school your kids went to was determined by where you live. North of Main St. goes to Washington, south of Main St. goes to Jefferson, etc.

Also, it's not like parents have some huge range choices, and when their kids reach school age, the state sends them a catalouge of schools with rulebooks ranging from Orwell to Deadwood, and parents get to choose. Aside from a few minor differences, the rules are going to be substantially the same at almost all public schools.