Pros And Cons Of Cell Phones In School

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Cell Phone Vs School Policies
Have you ever wished that school policies could change and cell phones are allowed in class, for example, this random person came into class while touching his cell phone and his teacher ask for his phone. Do you think students should have their cell phones with them during class?
Even in today’s time, students are still unable to touch their phone because of school policies, which will always said NO PHONE IN CLASS, but what if these rules were to bend a little bit that students are able to touch phone in class. It would be like paradise for students, because they would be able to listen to music while doing worksheet, taking picture of an project, and when there’s emergency at school. Even though the rules
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In more serious emergencies, like a school threat or shooting, cell phone could help students connect with worried parents.” What happens if a student doesn’t have a cell phone to call their parents, when a shooting happened? Those students could ask to borrow another student that has a phone to call their parents to get them because even in today's time, students still use their phone for this kind of …show more content…
So we can believe that these smartphone and cell phone can actually help students to become more educated and become more active when those students are on their phones. Imagine these students are so bored of something, it might be a class that they hate or it can be just that they are tired about something. How do we make these students to become more active? Well if those students are bored than make a game that which they could compete against each other on their electronic device. It should make those students that are bored to become more active during class. Now that this proofs that phones are able to help students to become more smarter than before therefore I believed that phones should be able to be in the future or the next generation to make these new students become

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