And in the “real” world you can get fired for not doing your job or being on your phone too much. There are legit consequences that can applied without much pushback. In schools, you can’t just kick a kid out forever for fucking with their phone after multiple warnings and detentions. You can, however, confiscate the phone for the remainder of the class, or have them keep it in their locker to check during breaks, which is exactly what this bill is doing. To be honest, that’s what teachers were doing anyway in most schools so this is really just a formality.

They need to learn that class is a place to focus on learning, and phones interrupt that learning. You think it's an opportunity to learn self discipline, but what about the kids that aren't as capable of that? You just let them miss their education because you allowed them to play on their phone in class, hoping they'd learn phone discipline instead of the curriculum?

Science and English classes are for Science and English, not phone discipline. They can learn phone discipline at home, and having significant breaks from constant dopamine hits throughout the day will help them do that.

When I was a student in the pre-cell phone era, you couldn't walk into class with a boom box or small tv, and expect to enjoy those in class, even with headphones. Phones are the modern equivalent.

Phones do not belong in the classroom.

You’re right there are not phone police doing that because adults are responsible. And where might these kids learn about that kind of responsibility?

Hmmmmmmmmmm….