Schools Seek Balance For Cell Phones In Class

There are many apps and websites that can make it easier for students to learn. In the article “Schools Seek Balance for Cell Phones in Class”from the boston globe it says that a high school physics class uses an app to record data and measure sound intensity. There are also apps like power school that allow students to check their grades and make sure all their assignments are turned in. Also cell phones allow students to type papers and turn in assignments, on programs like google classroom and google docs. These all make it a lot easier for the students and the teachers.

Phones also allow parents and students to communicate. Students can text their parents or who ever is picking the up and say “where are you picking me up at ?”. Also

when there is something after school like a campus clean up phones help get rid of the confusion about who’s giving the students a ride home. In the article How young is too young for cell phones in school by the washington post it says “parents send their kids to school with cell phones if they are walking home or in an emergency”. They can help clear up a lot of confusion of parents trying to contact their kid.

With all of the budget cuts, schools don’t have very much money and phones help save some it. Schools that don’t allow phones often have to buy IPads for their students to use.The average cost of an IPad is anywhere from 500 dollars to 700 dollars and so according to the total enrollment at owasso high school for the 2017-2018 year there are about 3000 students there. That would cost the district about 1.8million dollars and that would only be covering the high school not the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade centers. This could easily be avoided by allowing phones which would cut those costs by a lot.