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Would it not be possible to have a box at the front of the room that everyone has to put their phone in when they come to class, then they can get it back after class is over?

If anyone's ever been in a secure facility, they have little mail slots, sometimes locking with a key you can take, to store your phone while you go inside. Seems like we could just put one of these in every classroom. That should take care of the liability issue.

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Then kids would just bring two phones. The real phone and a dummy phone.

Seems like it'd be pretty easy to enforce this one. A teacher will still catch students on their phone, and then it goes in the box with the dummy phone. Plus punishment for sneaking a phone in.

We used to call them 'lockers'.

And those lockers were not at all secure, at least in my HS. There is no way I would encourage my kid to leave his phone in his locker. He'd be on his 3rd or 4th phone of the year by now.

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