Should high school and middle school students be able to use phones at passing time and at lunch.

First of all, my opponent has chosen to write his argument in a completely irrelevant manner to the topic statement: Should high school and middle school students be able to use phones at passing time and at lunch? His original claim was that students should be able to use phones during passing period and lunch. This claim changed completely when my opponent decided that phones should be allowed during passing period and lunch in the event of an emergency. He also mentions that phones should be integrated into the learning environment, all of this which is off-topic. Anyhow, I would like to address your point about emergencies. Schools have been teaching their students for years to go directly to a safe area as soon as possible. How can teachers account for all of their students with kids running to their lockers and texting their parents. Even one person texting can hold up the entire class and compromise the safety of all of those kids. I you happen to have your phone on you as you exit the school, it is completely okay to text a parent, but during a lock down or a tornado drill, an occasion where you are very quiet, still and within the school, using a phone is clearly a dumb idea. Secondly, My opponent's point about cyber-bullying is very much invalid. What use a phone in protecting you in a crowded building with teachers accessible every 10 feet? This is the exact problem I was trying to address in round two. Many kids are so obsessed with phones that instead of using common sense and calling a teacher close by, they will text a friend who is on the other side of the school. And third, my opponent's idea of "an educational learning experience" does not even fit with the original point. He says that phones should be allowed at school(which they are), and that they should be integrated with school curriculum. I am not even going to attempt to address this point as it clearly does not fit with the claim. Also, my opponents point about monitoring their child's location. After reading the site(http://life.familyeducation.com...), it says "(The Pew study noted that 48 percent of parents use the phone to monitor their child's location.)"( The actual site simply says that parents monitor their kids location, whereas my opponent said that they monitor their child's current location. Big difference. Finally, phones should not be used in passing period, because it doesn't benefit children. If schools are preparing kids for life, why should they allow kids to text or play games whenever they get free time. This can evolve into an addiction. At a university, students are expected to study, or do something productive during their breaks, not waste away precious time on games, social media, etc. As Steven Spielberg once said, "Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone."(1) Source(1): http://www.brainyquote.com...