The Importance Of Personal Devices In The Classroom

Students have rights just like everyone else, even if they are in a school environment. It can be humiliating and dangerous to a student's well-being to have their property searched and violated. Some students are even willing to sue if they feel they were unjustly searched. Dear faculty of high schools across America I implore you to think before you decide to search through and violate a student's cell phone; I believe that this practice is harming students.

4. Due to potential problems, many school systems have adopted a policy that bans cell phones on school grounds. However, some parents have

According to Akash Bagaria, “If the device is not school-owned and is not being used on school campus, schools should not monitor a student’s online activity. If an issue arises, the student’s parents could manage it.” However, it is still important that school officials and police officers need to check people’s phones because their job is to keep people safe. According to California resident Chris Eddy, “The police now have better means to find out if you’re guilty.” Posting good things online can keep you out of

School have the right to censor, limit, and band activities that disrupts the educational setting.

Being caught with a cellular device (on or off) will be confiscated and kept in a file cabinet in the principal’s office, waiting for your parents with $25 to pick it up. All cell phones will taken including phones discovered during searches of reasonable suspicion. The agenda states that under no circumstances should cell phones ever be used inside the school building. Cell phones should be enabled in our school for many reasons. It can teach our student responsibilities, to use for emergencies, for help and as learning aids and to keep us students

Staff and students are aware of the codeword which is used should we have an intruder.

E. HOLMES DISTRICT — In the wake of a sexting scandal that resulted in criminal charges being filed against 20 current and former Hiland students, the board of education adopted on Monday a policy prohibiting students from having devices on and with them during the school day.

Should officials be able to take your phone or any other electronic if they feel they need to? Schools believe that they can take students phones due to cyber bullying. If they can take the students phone they can stop the cyber bullying and get it under control. They have the right to monitor students online activities. If they are doing something inappropriate, the school can stop it right away. Say the police arrest someone for drugs, they can easily

Officials have no rights to go through a student’s phone without permission. For example, student’s buy their phones to store private information, which is invaded by officials going through your phone. “There should be a level of trust between teachers and students. Trust strengthens people’s values of commitment and responsibility.” - Akash Bagaria. Student’s should trust for officials to not go through a students phone.

They should not be able to go through people's phone because they might have personal information on it and they should ask if the person is ok for either the police or the principle to go through their phone.

With all the changes, our school can make changes in letting the students have more responsibility with bringing their device and improving our school one step at a

Should anyone be allowed to look through your password protected devices? Some people may have personal things to them like of their families that they don’t want you to see. Officials should be allowed to look through students phones to find information.

I am convinced many unpleasant things can happen if you take your device to school. Like it might get stolen. What is the bad thing with your phone getting stolen? You have a responsibility by making you sure your cell phone won't crack or get stolen. So it makes you look irresponsible to take care of something. You are losing money it might have been your parents or your.

Many digital devices can be set on silent; a student can receive a text message during a test. Teachers will not be able to hear the cell phone; this allows students to easily cheat on tests. Students cheating on

Smartphones have become a part of everyone’s body. Almost everything can be done through smart phones. Paying bills, doing grocery, buying food, and more time consuming tasks can all be done almost instantly by smartphones. Many jobs and institutions today do not allow the use of smartphones during a certain time, especially schools. Prohibition of cell phones in school is a good idea to prevent students from getting distracted. However, high school students should be allowed to access their cell phones at school, because high school students are mature enough to use their cell phones productively and beneficially. Having access to internet is very important to high school students. Many students could not afford to have all kinds of devices, such as laptop, tablets, and cell phones. Entirely banning the usage of cell phones can make students hate the school causing them to be more arrogant.