Phone confiscation

Redpunto

Can a secondary school confiscate a students phone for 24 hours?

grayzer75

Redpunto wrote: »

Can a secondary school confiscate a students phone for 24 hours?

I'd imagine they'd need parents consent to do that or it's theft.

spurious

What does it say in the rules that you or your parents agreed to on enrolment?

RealJohn

Maybe, rather than asking if they can, you should ask why they want to, whether or not they're right to, and what you can do to prevent it without resorting to "you're not allowed to do that".

sdanseo

The short, non legal answer is of course they can and thinking otherwise is nothing short of woke millennial entitlement

But for some detail, it happened me in 6th year, I was even 18 at the time, and was told I could leave any time I like and take it with me but coming back in was not guaranteed :rolleyes:

I suffered the 24hrs instead

shesty

I think the first part of my response to that scenario would be to ask the reason why the phone was taken, for 24 hours or not.


THEN I would be wondering could they do that - and tbh, I don't really see the issue.

virginmediapls

sdanseo wrote: »

The short, non legal answer is of course they can and thinking otherwise is nothing short of woke millennial entitlement

But for some detail, it happened me in 6th year, I was even 18 at the time, and was told I could leave any time I like and take it with me but coming back in was not guaranteed :rolleyes:

I suffered the 24hrs instead

Gen-z. Millenials are entering their thirties/forties now.

Agreed otherwise though.

This is it

virginmediapls wrote: »

Gen-z. Millenials are entering their thirties/forties now.

Agreed otherwise though.

Gen-z? Zombies is it?

scout353

If it is in the School's Code of Behaviour and/or social media policy then they can confiscate it and hold on to it for however long is mentioned in the code!