It isn’t surprising given how distracting our smartphones are that schools typically do like it when students bring phones into class. This is why many high schools opt to temporary confiscate the phones of students if they are caught with it, but it seems that 15-year old Vicent Duguay who studies at Quebec’s Charles-Grave Secondary School doesn’t think so.
According to a report from The Canadian Press, Duguay doesn’t think that his school confiscating the phones of its students for up to 24-hours is considered constitutional. So much so that he has sent his school a cease-and-desist letter for them to stop the practice, and while no legal action has been planned, and it sounds like they don’t actually plan to press forward on the matter, the matter seems serious enough that they just wanted the school to respond to it.
While it is understandable why sometimes phones could be confiscated in school, Duguay’s father Benoit Duguay claims that there could be negative consequences to the confiscation, such as safety issues where students cannot be reached in the event of an emergency due to their phones being confiscated.
He also cited an example where one of his son’s friends got fired from his job due to him being unreachable after his phone had been taken away by the school. As for what the school plans to do about the letter, Claudie Fortin, a spokeswoman for the Rives-du-Saguenay school board said that they plan to reply to the student directly in the coming days.
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