Kid breaks his phone at school rather than letting it be confiscated, now the parents want the school to pay: 'You better pay for my son's phone!'

Taking responsibility for your own actions is important and one of the first major lessons that a young kid should learn from their parents. Unfortunately, a bunch of kids were never taught this lesson—or if the seeds were planted… they never took root. When these kids grow up and have kids of their own, predictably the new parents are not the most reliable at teaching their own children a lesson that they themselves never learned, leading to a new generation of entitled people in a vicious self-perpetuating cycle.

Teachers have the joy of watching this take place in real-time, when the parents of a badly behaved student need to get involved and, after only a short conversation, they can easily tell where the behavior came from. 

In this case, this student was responsible for destroying his own phone when staff at the school tried to confiscate it from him. Of course, it ended up that the entitled child had entitled parents who weren't