Comment by lupire
16 days ago
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?