If the school policy states "no cell phones out in class", then the teacher has a perfect right to confiscate the phone. In such cases, the phone is either returned after class, after school, or very typically, it is returned to a parent who has to come to the school to get it.
“If the school policy states “no cell phones out in class”, then the teacher has a perfect right to confiscate the phone.”
Someone’s or some Org’s policy does not trump law or the constitution... The kid very well may have had a “policy” as well. “your not allowed to take me phone”.
So, no it doesn’t give them the right to do anything. Through him out, that’s all...
If your going to give up your rights to somebody’s policies, I feel sorry fo you.
The teacher didn’t just confiscate it, he smashed it to bits.