text: Furthermore, students should not be allowed to have cell phones out during school hours so they won't be late to class. If a student is tardy twice to class they will receive a detention and the next tardy after that will be a referral. Those will affect your discipline record and won't get you into college either. At school, cell phone use is just not necessary and shouldn't be tolerated at all. Also, if your are late you will have missed the class instruction and as well as some academic material needed to pass that class.