@fakenews – Let me make the story a little clearer for you. (and fyi, I witnessed this story)
I never said the teacher was right for using a smartphone. The problem was that some seventh grade kids got involved and made the younger kids act disrespectful in a case where it wasn’t such a big problem as the smartphone can be looked at as just a camera, because she wasn’t using it for anything else.
I clearly stated that the rebbe was a Gerer chassid which should say something. (and btw, the rosh yeshiva’s son in law, a well respected rebbe in the yeshiva was very upset when he heard the story and said that their behavior was not what the rosh yeshiva, who is very strongly against smartphones would have wanted).
The principal was right to get involved because the kids need to learn to listen to their teacher over some seventh grade meshuginers. Again, the situation should be looked as if she was using a regular camera.
