Texting In School

Cell phones have always been a problem in school, from texting in class, to recording fights at lunch or in class. They’re a distraction to instruction time when the kids need to be learning. It’s not like they’ll get an education off of being on their phone 24/7, or texting their friends to see if they want to hang out instead of go to school and get their education. There are times when I would say using a phone would be tolerable, not fully allowed, but tolerable.
People think when they have a phone, they have to constantly be communicating, constantly checking social media, and so much more. They wake up and the first thing they do is check their phone, but if they lose it, and wake up, their whole room is destroyed by the time you find

it. They put so much into the phone, they begin to forget what’s really important in life, such as, getting an education, getting new friends, preferably in person rather than over the phone, possibly making a business, becoming an entrepreneur. There’s so much kids could do with their life but they sitting on their phone in school, at home, at a grocery store, etc.
I get that they could use their phone to look up additional information to a topic, or an assignment, but is that really all they do? They say “I’m gonna use my phone to help with this English assignment, but while I’m at it, let me check my Snapchat and Instagram too”, which is from an article I read from The Boston Globe (). It’s never just one thing, they say it to make you think it, and you may be smarter than they think about that situation. Telling them yes, they can use their phone, but come and see them doing something other than work on their phone. It’s just a distraction to the kids.
Now, when is it tolerable? Times such as lunch, in between classes, or before and after school. Allow them to text, be on their phone, but no calling for food or even parents to pick them up. Strictly doing things that don’t involve calling or inappropriate behavior for school. They can listen to music and share stuff with their friends. You can’t really control what they do then either, so that’s the problem with even letting them do that. They could end up breaking the rules, which you couldn’t control, you just need to state the rules and hope they don’t break them.
At the end of the day, students, kids, even adults, phones are a distraction to school and society. You never truly get the education you need, you never meet the people you want to meet, you never get the job you want. Kids learn to depend on a device that won’t get them through college, they sit on it in school and don’t do their work. It can be approved at some times during the day, but it never should be allowed, they shouldn't learn to depend or trust that they can get away with it all. It’s mind games, it’s an addiction, and there’s no way to stop it, only prevent it for at least a couple of hours or more.