What is the punishment for not following the school's cell phone rules? Cell phones will be taken away for a month. Cell phones will be taken away until the end of the school year. School officials will call the student's parents. There is no punishment for breaking the rules.

The school can't take away your cellphone for as long as a month or a year because that's not legal, the phone is private property. There usually is a punishment however so the correct answer should be School officials will call the student’s parents. Very often, they tell your parents to come and pick up the phone that was taken from you.