Comment by willsmith72
12 days ago
> Can you imagine trying to text “I’m being followed by someone on XYZ road” on a Nokia-style keyboard? Do dumb phones support sending GPS coordinates to emergency services like smartphones do?
what do you think the world looked like 15 years ago? the 1-week is a punitive punishment. you know you can't have this. you deliberately chose to use it. if you get it back at the end of the day, so what? you've lost nothing. you wouldn't have been able to use it during school anyway.
Taking people's property is not acceptable. Parents can confiscate phones if they want. Schools can suspend disruptive pupils.
The UK has no sense of personal autonomy. Culturally no limits on controlling people to suit authority preference.
if taking a student's phone breaches your idea of autonomy, it's not just the UK you will have a problem with.
why does a student have the right to bring a banned object to a class and keep it? you would instead suspend the student? who do you think prefers that to confiscation? the student? the parent? teacher?