in my highschool the rule was that you can’t use your cell phone in school. they understood that some students and/or their parents felt safer if they had a cell with them on the way to or from school, so we were allowed to bring it but once we arrived we were not allowed to use it and they didn’t want to see it. if a student was found using her cell in school it was confiscated… girls were still texting behind their desks so later it was necessary to add that if a student was found with a cell phone they would be suspended for a short time… once that rule was made, cell phones remained in our bags and only occasionally, would someone text with their hands in their bags and only if the teachers were not in the classroom, meaning that it only happened by breaks…
i remember girls from other schools telling me how they were not allowed to have cell phones and the teachers would sometimes search through their bags!!! this invasion of privacy upset them so much! and they didn’t feel it was right for the hanhala to decide what they were allowed to own… this display of lack of trust caused the students not to trust their hanhala…