> schools ended up adopting an "out of sight, out of mind" policy around phones This was how it worked in my schools two decades ago. As long as you didn't use

> schools ended up adopting an "out of sight, out of mind" policy around phones This was how it worked in my schools two decades ago. As long as you didn't use your phone there was no problem, but otherwise it was the teacher's discretion on how to handle it (within limits). Usually that meant confiscation until the end of that class, on rare occasion they'd allow calls/texts as long as it was shared with the class (to embarrass them into not doing it again).