Students should be allowed to be on their phones during school hours.

Phones are devices that have the ability to be used for lots of things these days, entertainment, connections between friends and family, and most importantly, it has the power to go on the internet. I will be listing the reasons why students should be allowed to be on their phones. One very good "con" reasoning would be that phones distract the user of the phone, and could very well distract the students around the user of the phone. Lets do an example and have the debate going from there. Sammy gets on his phone during a math class after finishing his notes and finishing class-work for that class. She puts her headphones in, and watches some funny videos on Vine or something. She giggles sometimes, and as the teacher doesn't want her giggling to distract the class from finishing their classwork, she tells her "Shut your mouth Sammy, you are distracting the class!" Sammy then keeps on being distracting, the teacher takes her phone. Totally reasonable. It would not be reasonable though, to take Sammy's phone for just pulling her phone out to keep her entertained when she has finished her work. Lets do another example more relevant to this possible reasoning. Mark pulls out his phone his phone during class-work, as Sammy did in the earlier example, but the difference is, Mark still has his classwork to do. Mark is on his phone until the end of period(If you didn't know, period=class), not distracting anyone, just him in his desk on his phone. At the end of the period, the teacher collects the classwork, Mark is not done, Mark gets a 0 on his classwork grade, it pulls down his end of quarter grade by 1 percent. This would be a good argument, as one can argue that their tax money is not fully in use, as the teacher cant teach the student as much if he is on his phone rather then listening, but my reasoning that I will write in the next sentence, I will explain why that would not be as good of an argument to beat mine. Your argument is that the person who could have learned didn't learn, but I have a theory that would make that false. My theory is that the person who would be distracted by their phone are the very people who don't learn much in class. They have their phones out because they don't have anything more productive to do. They make their decision that there is nothing more productive to do because they are low in intelligence, and have no self control. They are not smart people who will be a benefit to the society when they grow up. In this theory, the case is that the unintelligent students will get more unintelligent, which will not effect their life's outcome very greatly, in exchange for freedom liberty and justice, which they pledge allegiance to every morning. Another argument would be that little kids don't know know that knowledge is of great value, and that's why they would use their phone in class. It would be then, the parents fault, why would you give a phone to a kid who can not control himself in the ways that I gave in the examples above. Do you think that a parent that would do that is going to raise the next Stephen Hawking? I am ready for an argument!