SO why was her phone seized in the first place??
Exactly.
Even here the schools have a policy that they will seize a cel phone from a student and not return it until the end of the school year.
Somehow I doubt that is legal, but it’s the policy.
I agree with you on that. And if a kid uses a cell, i can see confiscating it till the day ends. Thats fairly common. But how the heck does that give the school the right to search the contents? A cop on the street can’t search the content of a phone without a warrant,, but a school can??
hmmmmm
SO why was her phone seized in the first place??
My guess is that she was using the phone when she should NOT have been doing so. Most schools have a no cell phone usage in school policy. It is also likely that she was showing the picture to others. We had a similar situation in our school; a girl sent a compromising picture to her “boyfriend” who shared it with the world when they broke up. He was a creep and she was stupid.
Cell phones are major problems in schools..I ask my students to keep their purses (with phones) under the desks (and guys to keep cell phones out of sight and reach) since kids can take pictures of tests, etc. Texting is out of control as well.