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Is this uncommon? During high school in the US in 2005, weโd get our phones taken by teachers if they saw us with it or heard it.
This is an all-day thing. Put em in the box when you get there, pick it up when you leave.
We weren't supposed to have them at all, all day. And if it got taken, they'd keep it until your parent came to get it from the office.
Phones now are a way more important part of people's (and especially teenagers') lives than they were back then. And they're often also used to support lessons.
I was in middle school in 2005 and had basically no friends largely because I had no phone to text with.
SAME. We had no texting plan because the phone companies charged per-text at the time.
That's when I learned about the email gateways for all the major carriers so at least I could "text" when I was at home via email.
I didn't figure out that particular trick until pretty late, unfortunately, but it did serve me VERY well during high school.