[ComradeNikolai]

At our school, phones are "strictly prohibited" during school hours; from first period to ninth period, there is to be no use of them, unless you go to the main office and request permission to call your parents. However, most teachers just provide a warning if a phone goes off during class, and then take it away for the rest of the day on the second occurance (it gets sent down to the principal, and the school policy is that they may check whatever's on it; he must get a good laugh from some text messages.) However, some teachers (Latin) don't care how much we use it during class, as long as we do our work and don't cause a disruption.