Can school teachers legally take away your phones?

last SG · 2013-06-18T17:09:29+00:00

ATTENDANCE School • Students are to be present every day during the school term. • Once students are in school, they are not to leave the premises until dism...

BukLau SG

This is just a 'what if' question, just asking it out of curiosity, doesn't hurt anyone right? Did I say I am confirming with you guys so that I can know my chances of winning a court case with my teacher? LOL. 1 day no phone is much better than going down to the police station and making this big. Think I stupid?

BotaHead SG

help your teacher to carry all your class ex book

she will give it back to u

BukLau SG

help your teacher to carry all your class ex book

she will give it back to u

Lol great idea, will try if she take again xD

Obersturmfuhrer SG

Kids nowadays.... MAJOR

sinicker SG

to aspiring entrepreneurs,

please consider thoroughly before starting your own company.

this will be the workforce soon.

"boss say today go home 1 hour late finish up my work? can I call police?"

Contactdesmond SG

I think you should be punished more severly. How could you use the 4 letter word here in your question? I think you must some kind of a F**King student in the school.

FireIce SG

if some kind of f**king student, he would just f**k care abt tht hp and bring another one to sch.

and repeat.

maxmax12 SG

please disreguard my first comment post

i want to help you but before i help you i must ask

why isnt your phone slient or off during class time?

is there a real need to answer the phone call during class time? emergency?

i ask that you respect your teacher's lesson time during class via not answering unnesscary calls

*readers note* i Max koh the author of this comment is not responsible for anything that happen to you. what i wrote is only to be taken as reading pleasure. it shall not even be consider as an advise and im not a lawyer. you are not to quote me of anything in this post

so how to get your phone back

1) ask from your teacher humbliy in person for your handphone back and tell him and her you are sorry ( phone given back case close)

2) if that fails, tell your teacher your parent wish to speak to them if you have their support

3)if your parents cant get back for you, have them see your schopl principle with you along and make sure the princple knows your case, better still have the same teacher in the principle room, again be humble and respectful. if you still cant get the phone back, let the princple and teacher know you r taking this case to MOE and make sure you have the teaher's full name, princple full name and the school name and do also let them know you intend to file a police report.

4) get your parents to call up MOE and have them talk to them if you have the support, if not you talk to them and ask for assistance, if they refuse, tell them you would make the case big and file a police report for theft from teacher. Better still, if it was forcfully taken away, you can report of intention to ceause harm (if you do get hurt) and molestation if they do touch you in the process, do be very careful when you make such claim and reports (works better for girls) as you would be responsible for your word and action

5) make a police report for claim of theft and maybe even molestation and cause of hurt.

i suggest you start from 1) and only in the last resort to ever go to 5)

*note* i max koh the author is not respondsible for anything that happened to you what i wrote should only be consider as reading pleasure and is not even be to consider as an advise and i'm not a lawyer and you are not to quote me of anything that is posted here

FireIce SG

scared tio sue ijit

Rednano SG

BukLau SG

Aiyo, you guys really arh, comprehensive skills machiam got prob. I said in my post that in my case NOTHING happened, my phone rang because I forgot to silent it. The teacher didn't know if I got use or not so she just took it. I didn't complain. 20 mins later the lesson was over and she gave me back the phone. Then it reminded me of my friends' phones that were also taken, but for a month. ALL I WANTED WAS TO KNOW WHETHER THIS IS LEGAL OR NOT, AND CAN YOU ACTUALLY MAKE A POLICE REPORT/SUE. I don't really see a reason to use phone in class because all my friends are also in school so most of the time nobody text. My phone was confiscated on May 17 and returned on May17, no teacher is holding my phone now. Geez are you people dyslexic or what?

@sinicker

to the employer of sinicker,

please consider for him to be on the top of the retrench list.

This worker can't even comprehend simple things.

or maybe just make him an office boy.

Oh wait - "Boss ask me send this document to Joe then bring him Coffee? That means throw away the letter and buy milk for him? isit? Right or not?"

BukLau SG

please disreguard my first comment post

i want to help you but before i help you i must ask

why isnt your phone slient or off during class time?

is there a real need to answer the phone call during class time? emergency?

i ask that you respect your teacher's lesson time during class via not answering unnesscary calls

so how to get your phone back

1) ask from your teacher humbliy in person for your handphone back and tell him and her you are sorry ( phone given back case close)

2) if that fails, tell your teacher your parent wish to speak to them if you have their support

5) make a police report for claim of theft and maybe even molestation and cause of hurt.

i suggest you start from 1) and only in the last resort to ever go to 5)

Forgot to silent it, by the time I took it out of pocket to reject the call from a friend who called me for no reason the teacher already heard the ringing. I don't think I'll ever need those tips you said but the way you wrote it, it seems like it is illegal to take a phone away without returning, by the end of the school atleast.

loki_chaos SG

You shouldnt see it as whether if this is legal or illegal, coz this was done by your teacher to provide a suitable environment for all ur other classmates to study. That is your teacher's responsibility. Looking from another perspective, your teacher will get reprimanded if she/he does not do something abt the phones disturbing ur classmates.

Comparing it to the real world outside; takr example illegal parking and your car gets towed away. Of coz its not illegal, coz you broke the law in the first place. Its only right for them to take ur car away if you don't do so. You can only argue the case if in the event they kept ur car and it was damaged. My guess.

I think ur question here is not abt if its legal or not, is more like whats the maximum no of days a teacher can keep the student's phone.

And fyi, in my sch DM keeps it for 1year. Hes an ex police officer too. Just continue being a student and someday when u start working, you'll understand why all this happens.

Rednano SG

FireIce SG

tio flame liao then try to bian weh............

Llg2178 SG

Everything will be in order if we

do the right thing at the right time.

BukLau SG

I think ur question here is not abt if its legal or not, is more like whats the maximum no of days a teacher can keep the student's phone.

And fyi, in my sch DM keeps it for 1year. Hes an ex police officer too. Just continue being a student and someday when u start working, you'll understand why all this happens.

1 year? I think that's too much. The reason why I see it as illegal is because it's YOUR property or your PARENTS' property. What gives them the right to take it away? I've been to some museums overseas which says no photography. I took some pictures and the security demanded the whole camera, not just the SD card. Obviously I didn't give him because he's just a security guard. I just walked out of the museum like nothng happened. If teachers confiscate something for more than a day, can you garauntee what he's doing with it? Maybe on the way to his office he dropped it twice? Maybe he still using flip phones and would like to try smart phones? Maybe he give his son to use? Who knows what he's doing? Even people with high authority like police need a warrant from court. If a police suspecet you are holding something that poses a danger to the public, they also won't take something for more than a few days just to check if it is dangerous or not. Teachers get warrant from who to take your phone for one whole month? Morally it is correct, just like how killing someone who killed your mother is morally correct too, but is it legal? Don't think so. Anything more than a few days is too much IMO.

FireIce SG

see. it is YOUR opinion.

Rednano SG

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