article_snippet.sent: Officials at Highland Oaks Middle School in Memphis, Tennessee, said the children had demonstrated an 'inappropriate use of electronic media'.
article_snippet.sent: On the 'Cell Phone Policy' listed on the school's website and written by the Shelby County Board of Education, the Shelby County Board of Education says the increased use of mobile phones is a 'distraction' to the school environment.
article_snippet.sent: the Shelby County Board of Education adds: 'These devices are being used by students as a means of cheating on tests, taking inappropriate pictures and video of students and staff for sharing and posting across the internet, threatening and/or bullying other students, and engaging in an excessive amount of social interaction during instructional time.'
article_snippet.sent: The policy bans pupils from having a mobile phone on during the school day, and says children who flout the rules will have These devices confiscated. '
article_snippet.sent: It is not known whether the pupils were using the pupils mobile phones in school to post the images.
article_snippet.sent: The 'cell phone policy' says the increased use of mobile phones in schools is a 'distraction' to teaching, and could be used to 'take inappropriate pictures and video of students and staff for sharing.. across the internet'
highlights_snippet.sent: Authorities at Highland Oaks Middle School said sharing image was an 'inappropriate use of electronic media'
  