should students be allowed to listen to music during class

Now that I am on a computer I will refute the rest of your arguments. "But that brings up another problem that if students get so focused on their music will that force them to become anti-social? No one is saying that music is making anyone anti-social. If we are talking about during class time here then students shouldn't be talking to each other in the first place. So music is just making kids more talkative during class time. In any group activity where kids would be talking to each other music would not be needed. In independent work students should not be talking to each other in the first place. During lunch or recess when students talk to each other neither would be listening to music. "For the people who can't keep their minds off the fight they got into with their best friend the night before or family issues, music seems to be the perfect solution to their problems" As stated before if a student needs to listen to music for a specific purpose then they can. There is no reason to turn it into a school wide rule. "Sources suggest that "always having to sharpen them, kids throw them, they write inappropriate notes with them, they can use them to cheat, they poke each other with them, they get pencil lead stuck in their fingers, they steal them, etc." distracts kids just as well as an iPod would. Statistics show that U31; of workers in the US listen to music while working to concentrate on what they are doing more efficiently. The problem with that argument is that we need pencils to work and I know that most students aren't distracted by pencils. There are more people that are just sitting and staring into space when they listen to music then throwing their pencils during a test. "Many officials have problems with students that may download inappropriate media and might be shown around campus as a distraction. Some people say that the music they listen to helps them with memorization. Many people, including myself, find it very easy to memorize lyrics to a song because of the beat and rhymes and now students are taking advantage of that ability and are using it to memorize whatever they might be learning." That is music in general. That can be used as a point to keep the music program in schools but that would not be a point to listen to music in class. We do not know that they are listening to the could be listening to the notes for the test their is no way to monitor it all so it is better for their to be none. They could be using their devices for showing inappropriate content but that s a point for how their should be no devices in schools. "People suffering with depression listen to music to help their mood rise. Kids who are in bad moods can listen to music to help them keep their minds off of what is bringing them down and to lighten up their mood." People suffering from depression can listen to music but it will not help because depression is a mental illness. Your point may work for kids in bad moods but again if music is used for a specific purpose then it will be allowed the majority o students don't need music. "This could be a breakthrough in education, a positive step into the future, and aid to many. We should be aloud to listen to music with minor limitations during school to keep us focused." In my school we are aloud to listen to music No one's mood has been lifted, kids are still falling asleep in class, their are no super geniuses. There is only cheating, cyber bullying and misuse. So now are deices have been taken away and the school is a much better place because of it. So your entire argument is inaccurate.