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by throwaway50603 1131 days ago
A phone contains private photos, conversations, has authorized access to email, chat and social media accounts, it's a second authentication factor, it has payment cards, saved passwords, browser history, potentially health data (for example, period tracker and medication notification app) and other data that they might not want anybody else to access, or could even cause them problems if the wrong person saw some of (which doesn't mean it'd be something illegal or inappropriate - but some teachers have really weird ideas about how the life of a student should look).

Touching it without permission is unacceptable. Ask the student to put it away, pull them out of the class if they don't - but don't touch the phone.
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r00fus 1131 days ago
Honestly the sovereign student BS needs to stop. If it's disrupting the class the student needs to answer for that. The student isn't being asked to open the phone, just to put it away.

If I were a teacher I'd ask the student to power the phone down and put it on my desk face up. Of course, teachers have to do tons that have nothing to do with pure instruction - they're essentially running an org of 20-30+ kids all day.

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throwaway50603 1130 days ago
That's what I said - ask them to put it away, pull them out of the class, but don't touch the phone.
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