text: Secondly, I think that a good reason for having phones allowed in free time is that students would be less rebellious of the cell phone policy. If a student gets their phone taken away in class, it could just be for something silly like the ringer going off. Teachers always assume that they are texting and take the phone away. If the phone policy was that we were allowed to use phones in free time we could turn the volume down to silence without it being taken away.