Cell phones at school

Cellphone jammers.

Pandora's box has been opened.

You can't close it now.

Impossible to polease

Simple, they stay in your locker. There is no reason you need them in class.

One example doesn't solidify your spinoff here. It's 2015, phones aren't a new phenomenon, millions of kids have them and it won't take millions of a-hole cops to enforce school policy on the whole.

In this day and age, especially if you have older kids who drive back and forth from school, it's unrealistic to expect them to not have them at all in school IMO.

That said, it's not unreasonable to expect a kid to keep it in his/her pocket/purse with the ringer on silent during instruction. Or for a teacher to ask them to put it away when they're on it when they're not supposed to be. A lot of district/state personnel who come in to audit a school when their scores are low will mark a teacher if a student is sitting there on the phone and you don't address it.

during school hours, they shouldn't be able to use them. however, after school hours, they should be able to have them for safety purposes.

Cell Phones started to become mainstream when I was in high school. No smart phones, but Nokias and Razrs.

I had a teacher who had a box duct taped to the window outside. If he caught someone with their phone he would confiscate it and put it in the box. The box was outside of the classroom so if it rained or anything it would have gotten wet.

He would keep the phones in the boxes all day until school was over. Had to go by after school to get it, so you were SOL if you played a sport. In that case you had to get it in the morning.

Never got a phone taken up but he did take my Game Boy Advance and put it in the box.

Wish more teachers did this. Confiscation and no, you don't get it after the class is over, but until school is over.

I used my cell phone all the time at school. Teachers never said anything.

In high school, I think cell phones should be banned from the classroom. They can be put in lockers, kept at home, etc. I know this is 2015, but there are certain aspects of life where lines need to be drawn. With that said, I think the whole education system needs to change, but as it is today cell phones in classrooms are nothing but a distraction.