The schools can't monitor every child who has a cell phone or whether they are texting all day and during class.  I live in Williamsburg,  Virginia and just moved from Richmond, VA where every child starting in middle school has their own Dell laptop.  The intention was to give children the opportunity to use the device for learning but most kids play games on them and talk to other friends, listen to music and basically not do what they are supposed to.  It also opens them up to the tempations of cheating just as the cell phones.  Maybe if the schools confiscated all phones when they see them used in schools and forbid their use in school this problem would stop.  I know it would free kid's time up in school to actually learn and not be playing on phones.