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    have heard of the rule that there are no cell phones permissible during school hours. I know that is a significant rule, but we should have exceptions sometimes. There may be an emergency, and we can't get to the school phones. So instead of using the school phones, we can use our cell phones. A lot of people use their cell phones at work so why shouldn't we be able to use them at school? I'm not saying we should be able to use them while we're working on school work, but during free time and if we don't

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    Smart Phones in Class Rooms One of the worst massacre murders to ever occur in an American High School building was the 1999 shooting rampage at Columbine High school in Littleton Colorado. There were 12 students and one teacher who lost their lives because of this incident. Some schools across the country made new policies to allow students to carry cell phones as a means to feel safe. After this incident however, there were schools that continue to ban them. Those schools that don’t allow cell phones

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    Should High School Students Be Allowed to Bring Cell Phones to School? By Ronnie Phillips | Submitted On July 07, 2011 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook 1 Share this article on Twitter 1 Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest 1 Expert Author Ronnie Phillips Educating young

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    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

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    into his phone, this man pictured his world in the screen of his tiny devices and did not pay attention to what was in front of him, reality. This man ended up falling 60 feet off a cliff. The man died. "Police used his death as a warning about the dangers of distracted walking as well as distracted driving"(CBSN). So how distracted are we by the cell phone we use? Is the distraction enough to kill us? Introduction para 2: Take your first cell phone you 've ever had and the cell phone you have

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    presentation. Some people think that cell phones should be allowed in classrooms because they can help the students work harder because they are having more technology. But this is actually the opposite with cell phones the student will get distracted and do bad things with cell phones, things that can mess up their grade. But There are some ups and downs with phones, but some of the ups, are you can use phones to share work with others, and you can also use cell phones to research on websites. But the

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    Ding ding. The student’s phone distracting the whole class when he texting back and forth with a friend sitting across from him. Kids each day get more and more addicted to their phones. Electronics even affect kids grades. Children each day are getting chained to their phones; therefore their grades are dropping. The generation of cell phones has greatly affected us humans because children in school can be on their phones watching the next best thing while a class is going on, it is distracting

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    Adulthood Why are high school students not considered to be adults? By definition an adult is “a person who has attained the age of majority. The age of majority is the legally defined age at which a person is considered an adult, with all the attendant rights and responsibilities of adulthood” (Adult Law). Eighteen is the legal age to be considered an adult. Being an adult at the age of eighteen is defined in many different ways. According to the law eighteen is defined as “It is the age at which

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    communicate with cell phones? Seventy three percent of teens have access to a smart phone.Cell phones have became incredibly advanced in a relatively short amount of time, and the possibilities for the future are seemingly endless. Many of the early cell phone were considered to be car phones. There were no cell phones back then well there was but they was not like the ones people like to use. The cell phones that people had to use were really old and they were called back phones. The back

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    “Cell phones are owned by 91% of American adults, and now they’re becoming a disruption” (Ballaro et al). Cell phones are now trying to get their way around schools. There is some controversy between school officials and children about bringing their phone to school or not. Parents are also a part of the debate. School officials are even becoming a little peevish when students have them out during class. No one has ever thought that this would have become a big issue with schools around the world

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