Taking cellphones from students is like playing with fire

We need a new Second Amendment. Call it Amendment 2.1: The right to keep and bear cellphones shall not be infringed.

Because if that latest viral video of a girl being yanked out of her math class by an officer &#8212 with her desk still attached to her &#8212 shows anything, it’s how desperate teachers have become over cellphones in class.

I think we’ve all seen enough videos to know that when you call the police, you have decided that the situation has to be resolved by force.

And that teacher decided that getting the cellphone away from that girl required physical force. If this shocks you, Google the words “teacher, confiscate, phones.” There have been way worse incidents.

A year ago, in Houston, three officers tackled sophomore Ixel Perez for texting her mother, who was ill, during class. Same thing, only it took three officers to subdue her.

But the underlying cause is the same. Teachers have tried collecting phones before class, confiscating individual phones, or sending kids to the office. But some students are so completely bonded to their phones that to forcibly take them away is playing with fire.

Charlton Heston circa 2000: “From my cold dead hands.”