By all means continue taking these magazines away and toss them every time. Give them one and only one warning in the begining of the school year 1st offense take magazine(s) away and call parent and ask how they feel about this and ensuing consequences.

2nd offense magazine gets put in the file 13
3rd offense I gather the magazines and take them home and burn them.

If they agree, stick with the consequences rigidly.

I had one mother fed up with her daughter doing this so she gathered all her daughters' magazines and brought them into a pts meeting and tore up every last page and told her "I expect You to go school and learn, not to sit around and waste time by reading this trash, and your Latina and Glamour magazines have been canceled." " I better not see another one in your room"

School is for Education not fashion and beauty. I know one teacher who took the magazines home and let her young daughter cut the magazines up and she then hung the "artwork" up in her class for the semester as a reminder

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