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Are you always on your phone? Either Snapchatting, on Instagram, scrolling through your twitter feed? It can be pretty temping to pick up your phone and do this stuff in class but you can use them in good ways in school. George Washington Middle School currently has cell phones banned in class. Although most teachers think that cell phones are a distraction, cell phones should be allowed in class because students feel anxious without their phones, there are many educational uses, and allowing phones is more convenient.

Cell-phones are now and day apart of everyday life. Certain classes should allow students to use cell phones. With Social Media, Apps,the internet, and communication

In order to avoid disruption of class instruction and learning for faculty and students, all students attending this course are expected to turn off all cell phones (use of vibration permitted). Only in situations of dire emergency are students expected to leave the learning environment. Responding to messages of a mundane nature (by texting or other means) is disruptive and can be accomplished during class breaks and at the end of the class. It is not even necessary to have cell phones and other communication devices placed in the open classroom unless the potential for an emergency message exists. In that case, the instructor should be notified prior to the class in which the student may receive an emergency message. Even then, all due diligence should be made by the student to avoid exposing other students to the distraction of even an emergency message or the need to absence one’s self from the classroom. Frequent moving about the classroom during instruction and student presentations will be noted by the course instructor and brought to the attention of the student(s) involved. Avoiding distraction for other students

❒ Cell phones/electronic devices may only be used for educational purposes in the classroom setting. If a student wishes to use their device for non-educational purposes, they may do so before the morning bell rings, lunch, and after school (e.g., texting, internet, music) only if the cafeteria, patio, and courtyard areas remain clean with no trash, Monday through Friday.

Turn off and put away all cell phones, beepers, text-messaging devices and other electronic devices when class starts. The sounds of cell phones ringing during class are disruptive. Students should not leave the class to make a call or answer one (or worse—answer a call in class). No cell phones permitted on top of desks.

• Cell phones and pagers are a nuisance and do not contribute to the learning process. It is requested that you turn them off at the beginning of class. Once identified, should your use of cell phones and pagers continue to disrupt the lecture, your grade will be affected.

**DO NOT CHEAT** If a student cheats, plagiarize or helps another student cheat then they will automatically fail that assignment and will have to redo the assignment for a 0. Furthermore the students will have to write a letter to myself, yours parents, and to the principle explaining the why you cheated.

Cell phones should not be allowed at school because people can use them to cheat. They can text answers to each other, they can look up answers online, and they can use an online calculators. In source number two it states, “Students have been caught making calls in class and text messaging test answers to their friends.”

If your are allowed a cell phone in school and you get caught doing something you shouldn't, you could get in trouble. If cell phones weren't allowed in school there wouldn't be problems over the phone. If you have a phone in class it is a distraction from your learning. If your were a teacher would you want your students to have phones. Students would be on their phone while they should be doing homework. As students we go to school for seven hours. In those seven hours there is no reason they need to be on there phone. School is for learning, not looking at a phone.

We all know that student are going to do everything when it come to their phone,when the teacher comes and take it from them they are going to have their excuses and they may even not give it to you and what i'm trying to say that is not worth your time or the student time just to fight for the phone, this is one to the reason that if the phone policy would change this things would change and none of this would if the phone policy would change, it is a good idea for student to have there phone in school they can us their phones so the can be focused on their work you maybe be wonder how are they going to focus on their work when they have there phone them, well we all know that students like listening to music, well music can make you focus on your

As you can see. Various schools don’t allow cell phones at all. Why is that? They think that the phones could be distracting, dangerous, and Disruptive. It’s time to find out the positives of having a phone in school.

One rule that should be changed is that students should be allowed on their phones. They should be allowed on their phones during school because students can use educational apps on their phones.

Many teachers believe that cell phones don’t belong in a classroom because there are several disadvantages. An example maybe a student who uses a cell phone in class has no intension in listening or paying attention to the teacher. This student has a short attention span who cares about socializing more than his/her education. Cell phones can be very disruptive; they can invade people’s privacy and can also be used as harassment or bullying. The usage of cell phones is creating a huge problem particularly when they are used in school.

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 life in one way or another. From how they communicate to how they learn in the classroom. Students should be allowed to use their cellphones in class because it would cut down money spent on computers, allow students to use

You’re not truly getting an education if you’re absorbed in your phone instead of your teacher. Students should not be allowed to have their phones on school grounds. Cell phones and other electronic devices are huge distraction. Students don’t know how to handle them responsibly and using them could lead to cyber-bullying.