MarketingVOX: The U.K.-based National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) has requested that mobile phones be banned from schools and classified as "potentially offensive weapons," reports Engadget.

Some time earlier, students used the camera function on their phones to photograph certain teachers. They later posted the images on "rating websites that can damage teachers' self esteem and careers."

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