Footage has emerged from China of a teacher smashing confiscated mobile phones belonging to students at a middle school. <br /><br />In the video, filmed in Nanyang in central China's Henan Province on October 8, a teacher smashes the phones with a hammer and then puts them into a bucket of water as one-by-one the owners' names are announced over a loud speaker. <br /><br />Teachers at the middle school do not allow students to use mobile phones on campus and had warned students that they would be destroyed.<br /><br />According to reports, many parents agreed with the school's hardline policy.
