Pros And Cons Of Cell Phones In School

Cellphones have become a distraction throughout schools. Students can’t seem to focus through their classes due to their phones going off from a snapchat notification or a text message. Teachers have repeatedly told students to “Put phones away” or that “Phones aren’t allowed” but phones are still being brought to class. There has been so many cases where parents have had to come to school and get phones from principals do to their kids not abiding by rules. Some parents insist that their child be able to carry around their phone during school hours, but teachers beg to differ. Faculty and staff have stated that it’s harder to teach a class when there are students that aren’t paying attention because of cell phone usage. There is approximately

Parents argue that there could always be a life or death situation that comes up during school hours. There have been so many bomb threats and school shootings, if students don’t have their phone how do they expect parents to know what’s going on? Teacher’s have said that student’s can always use the phone but 95% of the office workers have said that having students come to the office to use the phone will not work. So many schools across the world have more than 600 students, that’s entirely too many kids in one office trying to use one phone. Teachers have also stated that if there is an issue as serious as a bomb threat or a school shooting that there will be a school cast sent out to all parents letting them know what is going on. Parents will be notified if something were to

Students have said that being able to use apps would help them more, than sitting in class and reading a book. Students have stated that they feel comfortable using their cellphones while in class. It’s only a select few of students that abuse the use of phones. It’s not fair to the students that are not allowed to have the use of phones because of a select few of students. If teachers are still having problems with the hand full of students that always have their phone then they should discipline those few students and not everyone else. If phones could be put into class time and used as a learning tool then kids wouldn’t be as tempted to get on their phones. Most teachers don’t like that resolution because kids are going to be on their phones regardless of what is going on, even if teachers have said otherwise. Parents and faculty have said that the use of cellphones are a nuisance and that there should not be an option of letting kids have phones at all regardless of the situation. Parents may have a different opinion but teachers have made the comment that parents don’t have to teach the kids, they don’t have the slightest idea what kids are doing when teachers are trying to give a lesson or trying to instruct other kids. Cell Phones are a constant distraction that cn be taken away in a matter of minutes. So cell phones, Necessity or Nuisance? What’s your