Obviously.

Speaking as a recent high school graduate, your statement is untrue. In my old school district, they enacted a district-wide rule that teachers were required to confiscate cell phones and turn them into the front office. A student could only retrieve them by having parents physically present, then paying a $15 fee. If it happened more than once, the student would also get on campus suspension.

I'm not sure where all that *cash* money payed to the principal's office actually went, but I don't remember any records past the first offense being kept. However, teachers were eager to confiscate phones after the first month or so.

I remember I was a sophomore when the rule was enacted. School was let out early one day, and I had to call my brother for a ride. A school administrator saw me talking on my phone (after school, mind you) and decided to take it up. I brought my brother and the school's code of conduct and had to argue with the principal to give it back. Fuck if I'm going to pay any money to get my phone back.