Cell Phones Should Be Allowed In School

Cell Phones should not be allowed in schools. "One, they can do instant searching for an assignment just given by a teacher" This statement does not make any sense. First of, normally, students are supposed to be doing research for assignments at home, not while the teacher is teaching. This distracts the students from learning. "Two, they can catch up with the teacher's blog to see what's happening in class and what the next assignment is." Why would students check the teachers blog, or check their homework when they are at school? This just distracts them from learning during class. " And lastly, they can be used to submit and create school projects. Sometimes they can be times where projects are unable to be brought to school and/or you need a document that is needed. If that was submitted to a teacher, it would show responsibility by the student by doing the assignment and listening to the directions given by the submission process that was given at a different time. " Normally students work on projects at home and not at school. And the last time I checked you can't print documents from a phone. Unless you are implying it would be a good idea to give your teacher your phone to grade your project while they are at home then your point doesn't not make any sense. If you are trying to say that the student could share a document form their phone with a teacher, then they can do that from a laptop. Phones shouldn't be allowed at school for numerous reason. When a student is using a phone it doesn't mean that they are using it for work. They can go on their phones an play Clash of Clans instead of doing work. When I'm at school I can't believe how many people I see playing it on their phones when they are supposed to be doing class work. Schools also have no way to prevent, what I just mentioned, from happening if they turn of the internet students lose all the benefits of using a phone during class time, or students just end up using their data. Also it is kind of hard to pay attention when a student receives a phone call in the middle of class. Every one stares at the student who forgot to turn of their cell phone. If students were allowed to use phones during class the number of distraction would explode. Also how about the kids who text during class? Right now they have to worry about talking kids, but what happens when kids start to text friends in other classes? Many kids would ignore the teacher and text with their friends instead. Also what happens to students who don't have phones. If a teacher wants to use a cell phone, then he will either have to exclude the student, give the student their cell phone ( which won't work if multiple students don't have a cell phone), or buy more cell phones. None of these options is a good idea. A student goes to school to learn, not to sit around. If a teacher gives a student their phone, the student can do anything they want with it and I don't know about you, but I don't want someone poking around with my personal stuff. Also schools are having to make budget cuts, and cancel programs to make sure they have enough money for equipment. Where are they going to get the money to buy cell phones? Sources: http://thinkprogress.org... http://articles.familylobby.com...