Fidget Spinners Should Be Banned From Schools Essay

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The toy that everyone is using, playing with, causing tons of debates, and bad injuries. That toy is called the fidget spinner and it’s been quite a problem to some people, but some other people disagree with that. Everyone’s using them, even adults and it’s not the best thing. Fidget spinners should be banned from schools because they’re distracting, kids like to trade them in class or on school grounds, and they’re getting thrown at other students which causes injuries.
One reason why they should be banned from schools is because some students are getting the toy from their friends or other peers when they don’t even need the toy, they just want it to play with and because other students have them. In the article Schools ban fidget toys as …show more content…

If you were to throw a fidget spinner in the hallway or try tricks, it could end up going crazy, someone could push you and it could fly out of your hand, and it could end up hitting someone in the face with it which could seriously hurt them. Fidget spinners get even more dangerous along with that, as there’s plenty of other ways for kids to get hurt by them. According to the article Fidget spinners land on list of most dangerous toys for kids, (https://nypost.com/2017/06/21/fidget-spinners-land-on-list-of-most-dangerous-toys-for-kids/) children both from Texas have been taken to hospitals for choking on the toy’s pieces and one of them was even taken to the hospital for surgery. Although, choking seems to be a very common injury with fidget spinners, it’s not the only one that could require some sort of surgery. Good Housekeeping Article talks about how this mother had to go to the hospital because her three-year-old son had a piece of the spinner stuck in his middle finger and they had to use at least three tools before finally cutting it

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