If she’d just admitted she’d been texting and handed over the phone, it would have been the modern-day equivalent of getting busted passing notes in class. Own up to it and everyone gets to move on. Unless she’s a repeat offender – and she might have been, because the police report refers to “past negative contacts” with her – she would have gotten the phone back after class and it would have been done with.

Instead, everyone – and there were at least four administrators involved, plus the campus cop PLUS two regular police officers and now court time – spent a lot of time dealing with something that should have taken, oh, five minutes.

This town would have to be a real Mayberry for all those folks to have nothing better than this to do.