Is Cell Phone Use in Schools a Constitutional Issue?

[thesummerqueen]

http://www.courts.state.nh.us/student/contest.htm

I'm currently discussing any and all things tangentially related to this site with another Jew. How about the rest of you scalliwags weigh in?

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A portion of my response to the person, btw, just to give some of my personal opinion:

But to bring it back to the original discussion, I absolutely do not believe a student needs a cell phone to be out during class, any more than I need mine out during my job, and I would expect some sort of discipline in either case for breaking the rules. But I draw the line at the idea that they should be confiscated (my brother has a cell phone because my mother is a single parent and he has a sports schedule - were it to be confiscated because he accidentally flashed it, he would have no way to get a hold of my mother - they have removed all of the payphones) or completely banned. I have a very dim view of the link you gave and its reasons for disliking cell phones - all of those things could be accomplished with or without a phone. It’s something on the order of property rights, I think, and less to do with free speech. No one’s limiting a students right to say what they want to say by taking their cell phone or banning it, but they are confiscating private property by doing so.