Remember getting caught passing a note in school? Evil teacher reads it to the whole class making you the punk-ass laughing stock. Well the note has been usurped by the text. By Instagram, Facebook, twitter on and on ad nauseam. How? By every student being allowed their personal cell phone in class. Of course they're not supposed to use them during class. Riiight. They're allowed to have them but not allowed to use them. That's stupid. Teachers are being told NOT to take them but plead with the parents to discipline their child about it. Riiight. Fuck that. How's this. Third time you disobey a direct order and disrupt class you are suspended permanently. Go find a private school for your stupid little fuckup and it's smart little phone tax payers aren't footing the bill any longer bitch! Or... because I do have a softer side, is it possible to just confiscate the culprits phone temporarily? Then read their tweets or text stream or wtf ever to the whole class? Just like they used to with notes. Interrupt MY class and other students opportunity to learn and waste hard working American tax payers dollars and you're gonna pay the price with shame and embarrassment!
If that doesn't work, how about Duct taping a big 'ol white plastic Cone Of Shame around the shitheads neck and then hand them back their phone. Can't look down at it now can you tweety? If it stops a dog from chewing out itchy stitches it'll probably stop a parental-fail
king-baby brained student from looking at their phone. Maybe, I don't know, i am not a teacher.