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I used to volunteer at the front desk at the HS and until the last two years there were supposed to be no cell phones in the school. First offense, parent had to pick up phone and student had Saturday school. Second offense, the phone was school property until the end of the year. This rule was in place when cell phones were mainly used for making drug deals (along with pagers, etc.). When oldest daughter was a freshman, her friend got Saturday school for standing in the parking lot calling her mom to pick her up from band. Puh-lease. (this was in 2001)

Now they can have them in school as long as they are off and kept in backpacks. I don't work in the office anymore, so I don't know what the current punishment is for using them. I know the teachers used to pick up lots of them during lunch and in the bathrooms between classes. My favorite was when a freshman's dad came in to talk about her phone getting confiscated "because we didn't know she couldn't have it in school" and she called him from somewhere in the school on somebody else's phone while he was at the desk talking to us. Another time a mother called and wanted us to page her daughter so she could get another mother's cell phone number from her friend. When we refused to call her to the front desk to take this very "important" call during school, she said "well, I'll just have to text her and if she gets in trouble it will be all your fault!"