Is Cell Phone Use in Schools a Constitutional Issue?

[Anomalocaris]

for the record, I agree - I just don't think they have the right to confiscate it. Give the kid detention.

The alternative that involves something less than punishement is to tell the student to leave the school grounds immediately with his cell phone, which is, in my opinion, a solution less condusive to the fundamental purpose of the school to instruct the student, as compared to confiscating the cell phone for the duration of the students presence in school, where he is presumably still being instructed.