Comment by mytailorisrich

Of course people have rights... the point is that schools seem not allowed to set their own rules.

The school my children went to in the UK has had a no phone policy for many years: phones must be off and kept in the pupils' bags. No need for a law change...

I think this is about approach to regulation and flexibility. In general being too restrictive about what is allowed makes things inflexible and poor at adapting.