Still don't think kids are addicted to their phones?

[Tiangou]

PeterB wrote:
All of that is true, but there's no indication that he hit the student or took the phone away against school policies.

Doesn't matter whether he hit the student.

Doesn't matter what the school policies are if he broke the law.

First hit (so to speak), just to give you a typical legal definition:
https://www.fatemilaw.com/assault.html

Assault is the attempted touching of a person without his or her consent, including under those circumstances where the person feels fearful that a touching will occur. Battery is the actual, offensive touching of another person without his or her consent.