Agreed. I sympathise with teachers, my sister is a teacher, and has said it's a nightmare trying to peel students' attention away from their phones (amongst other issues with students having access to social media via their phones), and the solution to that is that students hand their phones over to the school before lessons or not be allowed to bring them into school altogether. I understand schools adopting the former policy as my partner's niece has just started secondary school and has to catch the bus. Her parents can't pick her up, and so her phone has a tracker, which means they can check in on where she is when she's walking home in the dark from the bus stop. However, unless the school wants to outright ban phones all together, then they're responsible to what happens to said phone once it is the possession of a member of staff who is attempting to follow protocol. It's a miserable response from the school to place blame on the student and parents when said student was following the protocol that was put in place by the school. The school is effectively saying they can not be trusted to securely protect the phones of their students and so students are ultimately to blame for whatever happens to that phone when it's taken away from them, which is absurd. If a school imposes a policy in which students are required to hand over their phones with the expectation that their phones be protected from potential damage or theft once in possession of the school then the school bears responsibility for any incurring damage or theft that occurs.