And unlike you, I wouldn't sit back in my armchair, pour a sherry and relax, I would be in the streets with thousands of other people!

Hmm, I think this is a wee bit of an overreaction in response to a school imposing mandatory use of their cell phones on students. Some people feel an awful need to be superior to others, and righteous, and will take any and every chance to be such, even exaggerating or creating situations where they get to act in this manner. Give it a rest already.