katydid23
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Perhaps the better avenue would be for teachers to stop thinking they are the Lord of their own fiefdom and learn to treat every student with respect. Tell the student why taking on the phone is not beneficial to her or conducive to the learning environment, then politely request she put the phone away or step into the hallway.
Threatening to steal a student's phone and then finding a bully with a badge to threaten her further is not conducive to the learning environment either.
The break down of respect goes both ways.
This is a math class. If one teacher in a class full of 35 teens has any hopes of teaching the math lessons, she has to be the Lord of her Fiefdom. There is no other way.
Do you seriously believe that one adult in a room full of 35 teens can possibly negotiate every broken rule in the way you describe? How will she have time to teach the math lesson and go over the homework?