Right Of Confiscating Cell Phones In School

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The right of confiscating a phone during a fight becomes permitted. The usage of electronics during school have increased because of the advancement of the cell phone. With society changing the way you use phones, it has also changed the ethics in school with using phones. Educators have the right to take a student’s phone away, if it interrupts the classroom. Overtime, cell phones became a big part in school, to cheating through a phone, to recording fights. The right of confiscating the phone becomes a big discussion on whether it is ethical or not. Of course, educators envy for that power and authority over the student by taking the phone, but if they do not take the phone, it does not necessarily take their authority away. Almost every

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