I can not believe your attitude about this. You're just too afraid to be mad at your daughter for disobeying the rules that you take your anger out on the school.
I want to ask you a question. Does your daughter plan to go to college? it sounds as if you put little value on a good education.
OH, goodness, gracious me. Did you even read my post, or any of my subsequent posts?
I never claimed it was not wrong for her to text in class. In fact, in my first post, I said it was bad, bad, bad. And I have never argued with the school's right to take it away from her. It is their right to lay down policies for the students during school hours. My disagreement was with them keeping the cell phone from me, as it is my property and my decision whether she uses it after school or not. As to how my husband and I chose to handle this situation, that is no one's business. I am not afraid to be mad at my daughter, as she would be able to tell you. And as both my husband and I have graduate degrees, I can assure you we put very high value on a good education.
I congratulate you on you high expectations son. I'm sure he must be a model of perfection, always knowing what is expected of him and never doing otherwise. How comforting it must be to know that your superior parenting abilities have produced such a paragon. It also must be comforting to be so omniscient that you can make sweeping value judgments on other parents based on a forum thread.