Why Cell Phones Should Be Allowed In School Essay

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    January 24, 2017 4th hour Cell Phones Should Be Allowed In The Classroom According to David Raths, “Twenty-four percent of K-12 schools ban cell phones altogether, and 62 percent allow phones on school grounds but ban them in the classroom.” A communication tool that has become part of our everyday lives, creating a sort of dependence, is limited or banned for most K-12 students. For a population that always has access, limiting this connection seems backwards. Cell phones have changed everyone 's

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    Ring! Ring! Your phone just went off what should you do? You should ask my teacher if you can turn it off. Which students think that it is good to have cellphones in school, but some do not think it is a good idea? Cellphones are very distracting in class and school. Cell phones are devices they do not need to be used on school campus at all.The only time cellphones should be used is when students can research and do school work.Even though, students want their mobile phones on school campus teachers

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    Why Cell Phones Should be Banned in Schools

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    People in many schools regularly sneak around on their cell phones, trying to hide them from teachers or administrators. Cell phones were originally against school rules. Honestly it makes a lot of since for students not to be able to use their cell phones during school hours. Cell phones should be banned in schools because they distract students, allow cheating in Schools, and they can be dangerous. Cell phones distract students in school. Whenever people text in class it gets other people’s

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    Cell Phones: Should They Be Allowed in School There are 7 billion people in the world and estimated out of those 7 billion, 6 billion have access to cell phones. Cell phones we all use in our daily life and that includes in school. There is an ongoing argument on whether or not schools should allow students to have cell phones. Even though Cell phones can be distracting in school, schools generally use new technology, most schools are switching to technology and cell phones are a teaching tool.

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    I think that schools should allow students to have cell phone in school. I think that, because of the fact if something bad was to happen we could call our parents. If something bad was to happen we would be able to use of phone in case of emergency. Some people think we shouldn’t have phones in school because they think they are a distraction to us, from doing our work properly. I honestly think that if phones where allowed in school we could use them for school work also. Not just for communicating

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    to huffingtonpost an average teenager spends over one third of their day on their phones and kids ages 8-12 also spend nearly 6 hours a day on their smartphones. In addition, non-class purposes at least 10 times a day. Banning phones also shows respect to the teachers and students who would not like to be distracted throughout their day in class. In addition to that, in 2015 a history teacher at Lowell High School quits her job after her frustration with students and their cellphones. After 20 year

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    students should be able to use cellphones during class. His argument is that cellphone use in the classroom may be beneficial to students but it can lead to cheating and other issues. Such as students not knowing what to do with all the information that was provided to them. Cell phone use during class time will help a student get a better view and feel of what the teacher is teaching. Cell Phone use not only provides faster information for students but also for teachers. Cell phones should be allowed

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    Research Paper: Cell Phones Should be Allowed in School Over the course of the past decade, cell phones have become increasingly popular among teenagers in school, and it resulted in various school administrators debating whether or not they should allow them. The main concern for the schools is that cell phones can distract students from learning and that they can be utilized to cheat on exams, with both of the these reasons leading to some schools banning cell phones entirely. However, because

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    The use of cell phone is widespread, and has become a common trend for students. Gone are the days when cell phone were strictly for texting and calling, not it has more features that it can be used for other things. Phones now have like the iPhone can give weather, tell s when the stock has gone high or low, and direction, that is something I like to use it for. Today 's cell phone amazing at it is always there right at your fingertips. With this is mind the performance task is ask them if students

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    In each school there are absurd rules; ours by far has the most. Ok I get it, the staff is trying to us learn with a cleaner environment, but they have to be able to understand that phones CAN help you learn! Phones give us opportunities to hold many useful things such as calculators, passwords, and our schedules. I can see that they would want to take it away because it is “distracting”, but I honestly think that it is more distracting not having it then actually having it, now all we can think

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